According to robert sternberg, is the ability to deal with new and different concepts and to come up with new ways of solving problems (divergent thinking, in other words).

Robert Sternberg referred to the ability to come up with new concepts and ideas as creative or synthetic intelligence. People who use this type of intelligence, according to Sternberg, are able to take previously learned ideas and knowledge and apply them to new situations in different and creative ways in order to solve problems.