| Description |
xv, 567 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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APA science volumes |
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APA science volumes.
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| Contents |
1. Conceptual Structures and Processes in Creative Thought / Thomas B. Ward, Steven W. Smith and Jyotsna Vaid -- 2. Thematic Relations and the Creation of Combined Concepts / Edward J. Shoben and Christina L. Gagne -- 3. Conceptual Combination: Possibilities and Esthetics / Edward J. Wisniewski -- 4. Emergent Attributes in Combined Concepts / James A. Hampton -- 5. The Developmental Emergence of Multiplicative Combinations / Friedrich Wilkening, Gudrun Schwarzer and Annette Rummele -- 6. Coherent and Creative Conceptual Combinations / Paul Thagard -- 7. Imagination at Work: Conceptual and Linguistic Creativity in Children / Cristina Cacciari, Maria Chiara Levorato and Piercarla Cicogna -- 8. The Creation of New Concepts: A Multifaceted Approach to Category Learning / Arthur B. Markman, Takashi Yamauchi and Valerie S. Makin -- 9. Creativity: Shifting Across Ontological Categories Flexibly / Michelene T. H. Chi |
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10. Polysemy and the Creation of Novel Word Meanings / Gregory L. Murphy -- 11. Mundane Creativity in Perceptual Symbol Systems / Lawrence W. Barsalou and Jesse J. Prinz -- 12. Creativity in Personality, Developmental, and Social Psychology: Any Links With Cognitive Psychology? / Dean Keith Simonton -- 13. Metaphor Comprehension: How Metaphors Create New Categories / Sam Glucksberg, Deanna Ann Manfredi and Matthew S. McGlone -- 14. How Language Reflects the Embodied Nature of Creative Cognition / Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. -- 15. Of "Men" and Metaphors: Shakespeare, Embodiment, and Filing Cabinets / Eva Feder Kittay -- 16. Analogy and Creativity in the Works of Johannes Kepler / Dedre Gentner, Sarah Brem and Ron Ferguson [et al.] -- 17. How Scientists Think: On-Line Creativity and Conceptual Change in Science / Kevin Dunbar -- 18. Mental Models, Space, and Embodied Cognition / Arthur M. Glenberg -- 19. Creativity's Camel: The Role of Analogy in Invention / David N. Perkins |
| Summary |
As in most other areas of cognitive psychology, research on concepts and categories has provided a wealth of information about the more receptive aspects of cognition (e.g., how people classify category instances) but has been less systematic in assessing the more generative aspects (e.g., how people use their concepts to develop something new). Here, the contributors to this volume focus on the latter with the hope of stimulating additional work on the important topic |
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Where do people get new ideas? How are they inspired to make new discoveries? How is old knowledge mapped onto novel situations, and how are old, mistaken ways of thinking replaced by innovative perspectives? /// "Creative Thought" examines these questions in light of new research on the nature of creativity, with an emphasis on its generative aspects--that is, on how old concepts are used to generate new ideas. This is a unique focus, since most works on creativity have emphasized its receptive aspects |
| Notes |
Based on a conference sponsored by the American Psychological Association Science Directorate ... [et al.] |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Also issued in print |
| Subject |
Creative ability -- Congresses.
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Creative thinking -- Congresses.
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Creativity.
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| Genre/Form |
Congress.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Smith, Steven M.
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Vaid, Jyotsna.
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Ward, Thomas B.
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American Psychological Association.
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| LC no. |
97000892 |
| ISBN |
1557984042 (casebinding) |
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