What Advice Would You Give to a Teacher Trying to Encourage

question 74

Multiple Choice

What advice would you give to a teacher trying to encourage creativity in their students?

• A)'Emphasise rote memorisation.'
• B)'Provide them with items from standardised IQ tests and help them work through each problem.'
• C)'Encourage them to explore possibilities and not worry about getting the correct answer.'
• D)'Since creative ability appears to be innate, there is not a lot you can do.'

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Definitions:

Escalation of Commitment

The phenomenon of investing increasingly more resources into a failing course of action due to cognitive biases and sunk costs.

Confirmation Bias

The tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one's preexisting beliefs or hypotheses.

Representation Bias

Representation bias refers to the cognitive bias where individuals inaccurately assess the probability of an event based on the ease with which examples come to mind, often due to how frequently they are portrayed or mentioned.

Creativity

The ability to generate or recognize ideas, alternatives, or possibilities that may be useful in solving problems, communicating with others, and entertaining ourselves and others.