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Title The creative cognition approach / edited by Steven M. Smith, Thomas B. Ward, and Ronald A. Finke
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1995
©1995

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 351 pages) : illustrations
Contents Origins and consequences of novelty / George Mandler -- Intuitive antecedents of insight / Kenneth S. Bowers, Peter Farvolden, Lambros Mermigis -- Case studies of creative thinking: reproduction versus restructuring in the real world / Robert W. Weisberg -- Productive problem solving / Roger L. Dominowski -- The ineffability of insight / Jonathan W. Schooler, Joseph Melcher -- Fixation, incubation, and insight in memory and creative thinking / Steven M. Smith -- What's old about new ideas? / Thomas B. Ward -- Visual and computational approaches to creative cognition
Static patterns moving in the mind / Jennifer J. Freyd, Teresa M. Pantzer -- Scientific discovery and creative reasoning with diagrams / Peter C.-H. Cheng, Herbert A. Simon -- Making machines creative / Roger C. Schank, Chip Cleary -- Creativity and connectionism / Colin Martindale -- An investment approach to creativity / Todd I. Lubart, Robert J. Sternberg -- Creative realism / Ronald A. Finke -- Principles, paradoxes, and prospects for the future of creative cognition / Steven M. Smith, Thomas B. Ward, Ronald A. Finke
Summary Annotation Surveys the studies and theoretical views of prominent researchers in the areas of problem solving, concept formation, and thinking. Contributors cover a wide range of approaches that play a role in creative cognition, from associationism, to Gestalt, to computational approaches. Topics include dreams, intuition, the use of prior knowledge in creative thinking, insight versus analytic problem solving, and visual and computational processes in creative cognition. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or
Analysis Creativity
Notes "A Bradford book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject Creative ability.
Creative thinking.
Cognition.
Problem solving.
Creativity
Cognition
Problem Solving
creativity.
cognition.
SELF-HELP -- Creativity.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Creative Ability.
Creative thinking.
Cognition.
Creativeness.
Problem solving.
Creativite.
Pensee creatrice.
Creative ability.
Problem solving
Cognition
Creative ability
Creative thinking
Form Electronic book
Author Smith, Steven M
Ward, Thomas B.
Finke, Ronald A.
ISBN 9780262283892
0262283891
0585003491
9780585003498
9780262193542
026219354X