Re:Module 5 DQ 1 Nadia Bhatti Affective creativity is an important part of developing the ability to problem solves interpersonal issues (Forgas, 2002). As a human, there are so many facets that can affect people's ability to see clearly such as financial needs, social needs, emotional needs, and intellectual needs and being able to empathize with those needs or being able to recognize those needs can help accommodate a remedy (Forgas, 2002). Affect plays a significant role in social cognition and judgments (Forgas, 2002). Affective states determine how we feel and, in turn, determine how we respond to our environment and deal with interpersonal stressors( Forgas, 2002). People acquire affective responses toward social stimuli. Affect also plays a role in how people represent themselves into their social experiences (Forga, 2002). Whereas, creativity is a trait that all to most humans possess. As there are many ways to encourage or enhance creativity or creative outlets to assess, deal, or address recurrent daily interpersonal issues (Onarheim &Frijs-Olivarius, 2013). From a cognitive standpoint affect effects a multitude of things within one person, but sometimes it takes creativity to be able to assess and resolve those daily issues from an external standpoint and an internal standpoint.  
Forgas, J.(2002).feeling and doing: Affective influences on interpersonal behavior. Psychological Inquiry, 13, 1-28affect also affects the way we interact interpersonally( Forgas, 2002). 
Onarheim, B., Frijs-Olivarius, M..(2013). Applying the neuroscience of creativity to creativity training. Frontier Human Neuroscience, 7, 656-676  5.1 Keisha Harris How useful is affective creativity in resolving recurrent daily interpersonal (social) issues? Why? Is affective creativity more important than cognitive learning or rational thinking in solving this type of problem? Why or why not? I believe affective creativity is especially important in resolving interpersonal issues. A study developed by Isen and colleagues (1987) demonstrated that positive affect promotes creativity and problem solving (Isen, Daubman & Nowicki, 1987). The study showed that in situations where affective creativity was high, persons where in a happy feeling state and obtained higher joint benefits on integrative bargaining tasks and other social issues that required an innovative solution (Isen et al., 1987). I tend to view affective creativity, cognitive learning and rational thinking as all being interconnected. Neurobiological evidence suggests that “the aspects of cognition that we recruit most heavily in schools, namely, learning, attention, memory, decision making, and social functioning, are profoundly affected by and subsumed within the processes of emotion. Emotion related processes are required for skills and knowledge to be transferred from the structured school environment to real-world decision making because they provide an emotional rudder to guide judgment and a ...

1. Re:Module 5 DQ 1 Nadia Bhatti
Affective creativity is an important part of developing the
ability to problem solves interpersonal issues (Forgas, 2002).
As a human, there are so many facets that can affect people's
ability to see clearly such as financial needs, social needs,
emotional needs, and intellectual needs and being able to
empathize with those needs or being able to recognize those
needs can help accommodate a remedy (Forgas, 2002). Affect
plays a significant role in social cognition and judgments
(Forgas, 2002). Affective states determine how we feel and, in
turn, determine how we respond to our environment and deal
with interpersonal stressors( Forgas, 2002). People acquire
affective responses toward social stimuli. Affect also plays a
role in how people represent themselves into their social
experiences (Forga, 2002). Whereas, creativity is a trait that all
to most humans possess. As there are many ways to encourage
or enhance creativity or creative outlets to assess, deal, or
address recurrent daily interpersonal issues (Onarheim &Frijs-
Olivarius, 2013). From a cognitive standpoint affect effects a
multitude of things within one person, but sometimes it takes
creativity to be able to assess and resolve those daily issues
from an external standpoint and an internal standpoint.
Forgas, J.(2002).feeling and doing: Affective influences on
interpersonal behavior. Psychological Inquiry, 13, 1-28affect
also affects the way we interact interpersonally( Forgas,
2002). Onarheim, B., Frijs-Olivarius, M..(2013). Applying the
neuroscience of creativity to creativity training. Frontier Human
Neuroscience, 7, 656-676

2. 5.1 Keisha Harris
How useful is affective creativity in resolving recurrent daily
interpersonal (social) issues? Why? Is affective creativity more
important than cognitive learning or rational thinking in solving
this type of problem? Why or why not?
I believe affective creativity is especially important in resolving
interpersonal issues. A study developed by Isen and colleagues
(1987) demonstrated that positive affect promotes creativity and
problem solving (Isen, Daubman & Nowicki, 1987). The study
showed that in situations where affective creativity was high,
persons where in a happy feeling state and obtained higher joint
benefits on integrative bargaining tasks and other social issues
that required an innovative solution (Isen et al., 1987).
I tend to view affective creativity, cognitive learning and
rational thinking as all being interconnected. Neurobiological
evidence suggests that “the aspects of cognition that we recruit
most heavily in schools, namely, learning, attention, memory,
decision making, and social functioning, are profoundly
affected by and subsumed within the processes of emotion.
Emotion related processes are required for skills and knowledge
to be transferred from the structured school environment to real-
world decision making because they provide an emotional
rudder to guide judgment and action” (Ashton-James &
Chartrand, 2008, p. 1041). With that being said, I cannot say
that affective creativity is more important, maybe equally
important. In addition, I think other situational factors must be
considered in determining which element is most important.
References:
Ashton-James, C. E. & Chartrand, T. L. (2008). Social cues for

3. creativity: The impact of behavioral mimicry on convergent and
divergent thinking. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology,
4(5), 1036-1048.
Goldstein, E. B., (2011). Cognitive psychology: connecting
mind, research, and everyday experience, 3rd ed. Belmont, CA:
Wadsworth.
Deborah Hill
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Re:Module 5 DQ 2
John is required to take a professional development course to
learn a new work function in order to keep his job. The course
is offered by his company’s employee training division only as
an online course that requires significant amounts of reading
and writing. He is finding it difficult to learn in this manner. In
his quest to find ways to help himself learn, he has taken a
learning inventory and found that his prominent learning style is
tactile/kinesthetic. He takes the results of the learning inventory
to HR and requests accommodations under ADA because of his
learning style. What is the most significant strategy the
company can invoke to accommodate John and other employees
like him? Defend your answer.
John's assessment concludes that a combination of physical
practice and bodily activities are his best options for learning
and completing task.
This further shows that continuing education in an online
setting poses a threat to his success in part because the learning
environment does not support his preferred style of learning. I
am not sure how he would negotiate for special treatment unless
he has been diagnosed with a disability that would provide
alternatives to the method of instruction assignned. In John's
case, he recognized his best style of learning because of
employment mandate. His immediate need proably doesn't

4. qualify the workplace to provide him with special arrangements.
John's company might try incorporating simulations in the
format of games. Based on an artile I found called "It's Not All
Fun and Games" are supporting a growing number of skill sets
and providing feedback, assessed through non threatening
conditions of learning (Weinstein, 2015).
This sresearch shows how more innovation takes place in
technolgies to promote job skills. As an alternative method in
the workplace John and other employees could benefit from
these options without enduring affects of insecurities, and
isolation in a distance learning an online environment. can be
accomplished through fun using serious games like those
applied in military practice exercises in readiness and
preparedness while acheiving the skills necessary for continual
learning is education (Weinstein, 2013). This sounds like the
game of life and monopoly that teaches children social skills
and money management.
References:
Weinstein, M. (2015). It's Not All Fun and Games. Training,
52(5), 36-41.
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