Creativity [1]

Torrance [2] and Alencar [3], among others, refer to three mental capacities that can be considered intimately linked to creativity:

1. Fluency — “the abundance or quantity of different ideas on the same subject or answers to a question” or “the ability to think of a large number of ideas or possible solutions to a problem”;
2. Flexibility — “the ability to alter the course of thought or devise different categories of responses” or “the ability to think in different methods or strategies”;
3. Originality — “the ability to think of unique or unusual possibilities” or the “rare, infrequent, or uncommon” but possible responses.

Creativity is the expression of a potential human capacity for achievement that manifests itself through human activities, of inventive originality or innovation, and that generates products in the course of its process [4, 5].