According to Bruner, the creative person’s intention is:
A. crucial to the success of the “creative enterprise.”
B. of no consequence.
C. of little interest to the creative person himself.
D. banal.
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1O 11 12 13 An act that produces effectfve surprfse — this I shall take as the hallmark of a creative enterprise. The content of the surprise can be as various as the enterprises in which [people] are engaged. It may express itself in one’s dealings with children, in making love, in carrying on a business, in formulating physical theory, in painting a picture. I could not care less about the person’s intention, whether or not he intended to create. The road to banality is paved with creative intentions. Surprise is not easily defined. It is the unexpected that strikes one with wonder or astonishment. What is curious about effective surprise is that it need not be rare or infrequent or bizarre and is often none of these things. Effective surprises . . . seem rather to have the quality of obviousness about them when they occur, producing a shock of recognition following which there is no longer astonishment. It is like this with great formulae, as in that for the conservation of energy or for the brilliant insight that makes chemistry possible, the conservation of [11855.
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