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Controlled Vocabulary List

CBIR uses a predefined list of terms to catalog the bibliographic items within the database. This list identifies broad terms and narrower terms within these broad terms designed to assist users identify related materials. By using a combination of these main (broadly defined) and sub (narrowly defined) terms, users will be able to focus their searches to identify relevant materials. The main terms are identified below as major bullets and the sub terms for each main term are listed as subordinate bullets.

To search CBIR using the Controlled Vocabulary, please enter the main and subordinate terms desired. For example, to find information about creative processes, one would search for "process" as a Descriptor. To find resources about creative teaching methods, one would search for "education / teaching." To identify materials about Creative Problem Solving (CPS), one might search for "models / CPS" or perhaps "problem solving / creative problem solving."

Please note that if you wish to search for a main term and its subordinate term, enter the main term first, followed by a space, the backslash (/), another space, and then the subordinate term. If your searches do not identify the materials you seek, please review the Controlled Vocabulary Definitions (perhaps we have a different definition) or try a related term found on the Controlled Vocabulary List. A 'printer-friendly' document of this Controlled Vocabulary List is available in pdf format.

  • Administration
    • Administrators
    • Enterprises
    • Managers
    • Organizations
    • Structure
  • Age
    • Adolescent
    • Adult
    • Child
    • Elderly
  • Arts
    • Aesthetics
    • Art
    • Artist
    • Business-Art Relationship
    • Creative Movement
    • Fine arts
    • Performing
    • Stimulation
  • Assessment
    • Creativity
    • Evaluation
    • Instruments
    • Longitudinal Studies
    • Measurement
    • Multivariate
    • Predicting
    • Profiling
    • Reliability
    • Surveys
    • Testing
    • Transfer of training
    • Validity
  • Behavior
    • Classroom
    • Conflict
    • Extra sensory perception
    • Individual
    • Performance
    • Sex differences
    • Sex roles
    • Social
    • Styles
  • Blocks
    • Barriers
    • Blocks to creativity
  • Brain Hemisphericity
    • Brain lateralization
    • Left brain
    • Right brain
    • Whole brain
  • Business
    • Business administration
    • Business education
    • Business science
    • Corporate culture
    • Employee productivity
    • Entrepreneur
    • Industry
    • Leadership
    • Management
    • Managers
    • Marketing
    • Performance
    • Training
  • Case Studies
  • Climate (See also Press)
    • Business
    • Change
    • Classroom
    • Dimensions of climate
    • Environment
    • Organizational
    • Press
  • Cognitive
    • Ability
    • Cognition
    • Development
    • Functioning
    • Level
    • Metacognition
    • Style
  • Communications
    • Advertising
    • Communication
    • Communication tools
    • Neuro-linguistic programming
  • Computer Applications
    • Computer-aided creativity
    • Computerized techniques
    • Decision support systems
    • Expert systems
    • Simulation
  • Creativity
    • Myths
    • Physiology of creativity
    • Stimulating creativity
  • Culture
    • Cross cultural
    • Ethnic diversity
    • Minorities
    • Poverty
    • Socioculture
  • Education
    • Administration
    • Adult education
    • At-risk
    • Classroom
    • Cooperative learning
    • Curriculum
    • Disadvantaged
    • Educational innovation
    • Elementary
    • Experiential education
    • Futures education
    • Gifted and Talented
    • Higher education
    • Innovation
    • Intelligence
    • Learning
    • Middle school
    • Pedagogy
    • Preschool
    • Programs
    • Secondary
    • Skills and trades
    • Special education
    • Teaching
    • Teaching thinking
    • Tertiary
    • Training
    • Vocational
  • Facilitation
  • Groups
    • Group development
    • Group dynamics
    • Group performance
    • Group problem solving
    • Group process
    • Group size
    • Individual
  • History of Creativity
    • Founders
    • Models
    • Philosophy
    • Psychology
    • Research
    • Theory
  • Humanities
    • Language
    • Linguistics
  • Imagery
    • Dream
    • Imagination
    • Mental rehearsal
    • Visioning
    • Non-visual
  • Innovation
    • Breakthroughs
    • Diffusion
    • Economic theory
    • Educational
    • Management
    • Models
    • Social
    • Stages in innovation
    • Structured techniques
    • Styles
  • Intelligence
    • Artificial intelligence
    • IQ
    • Multiple Intelligences
    • Structure of Intellect
  • Leadership
    • Liberating
    • Style
    • Situational leadership
    • Transforming
  • Management
    • Human resource management
    • Total quality management
  • Mentoring
    • Mentor
    • Model
    • Programs
    • Teacher
  • Models
    • Beckhard model
    • Blocks model
    • CoRT
    • Creative Analysis
    • CPAM (Creative Product Analysis Matrix)
    • CPS
    • Creatology
    • Decision model
    • Future Problem Solving model
    • Gifted & Talented
    • Heuristics
    • Kepner-Tregoe
    • Learning model
    • Maslow's hierarchy of needs
    • MICIIM
    • Morphological model
    • SES
    • Sociodrama
    • Structure of Intellect
    • Scimitar
    • Situational leadership
    • Synectics
    • Targeted Innovation
  • Motivation
    • Extrinsic
    • Intrinsic
  • Networking
    • Networks
    • Newsletters
  • Organizations
    • Organizational behavior
    • Organizational change
    • Organizational climate
    • Organizational development
    • Organizational structure
  • Person
    • Characteristics
    • Demography
    • Family impact
    • Individual
    • Level
    • Motivation
    • Personality
    • Risk taking
    • Self actualization
    • Self image
    • Stress
    • Therapy
  • Press (Also see Climate)
    • Characteristics
    • Culture
    • Environment
    • Imagination
    • Motivation
    • Play
  • Problem Solving (Also see Models)
    • Algorithmic
    • Brainstorming
    • Counseling
    • Creative problem solving
    • Decision making
    • Effective
    • Future problem solving
    • Goal setting
    • Heuristic
    • Intuition
    • Models
    • Process
    • Social problem solving
    • Systematic
    • Techniques
    • Therapy
    • Tools
  • Process (Also see Models and Techniques)
    • Analogical thinking
    • Conflict resolution
    • Consultancy
    • Convergent thinking
    • Brainstorming
    • Decision making
    • Divergent thinking
    • Fun
    • Humor
    • Idea generation
    • Imagination
    • Implementation
    • Incubation
    • Intuition
    • Morphological thinking
    • Play
    • Preparation
    • Problem identification
    • Problem solving
    • Serendipity
    • Solution development
    • Training
  • Product
    • Copyright
    • Development
    • Evaluation
    • Intellectual property
    • Invention
    • Patents
  • Psychology
    • Psychologists
    • Social psychology
  • Research
    • Anthropological
    • Epistemology
    • Ethnographic
    • Empirical
    • Founders
    • Methodology
    • Philosophy
    • Professional characteristics
    • Psychological
    • Research and development
    • Research management
    • Qualitative
    • Quantitative
  • Science
    • Scientists
    • Scientific Method
  • Sociology
  • Styles
    • Adaptor
    • Applications
    • Flex
    • Innovator
    • Instruments
    • Intuition
    • Learning style
    • MBTI
    • KAI
  • Systems
    • Analogical
    • Biological
    • Cybernetic
    • Recursiveness
    • Theory
  • Techniques
    • Blockbusting
    • Brainstorming
    • Convergent
    • Divergent
    • Facilitation
    • Knight's move thinking
    • Lateral thinking
    • Process
  • Technology
    • Assessment
    • Diffusion
    • Forecasting
    • Transfer
  • Theory
    • Catastrophe theory
    • Cognitive theory
    • Creativity
    • Ecological
    • Gestalt
    • Investment theory
    • Janusian thinking
    • Learning theory
    • Motivational theory
    • Paradigm shift
    • Paradox
    • Personality theory
    • Philosophy
    • Psychedelic
    • Psychoanalytic
    • Psychodynamic
    • Researchers
    • Theorists
    • Transformational
  • Thinking
    • Affirmative judgement
    • Analogical thinking
    • Convergent thinking
    • Creative thinking
    • Critical thinking
    • Divergent thinking
    • Lateral thinking
    • Metaphorical
    • Meta thinking
    • Reflective
    • Thinking skills
    • Techniques
  • Writing

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