The creative cognition approach
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The creative cognition approach
（Bradford book）
MIT Press, c1995
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ISBN 9780262193542
Description
Mental processes are the essence of creative endeavour. This text extends this particular view of creativity, first proposed and developed by the editors in their earlier book "Creative Cognition", to the programmes and theoretical views of some of the most prominent researchers in the areas of problem solving, concept formation, and thinking. Chapters cover a wide range of approaches and processes that play a role in creative cognition, from those that have their roots in associationism (the notion that creative ideas are produced incrementally), through the Gestalt point of view (particularly insight), to current computational approaches. Each chapter deals with central issues in cognition and creativity, and many consider new ways in which creativity can be studied under controlled conditions. This text begins with an analysis of dreams. It then takes up intuition and insight from a contemporary cognitive perspective, and the importance of using prior knowledge in the incremental view of creative problem solving, which is contrasted with the importance of various forms of fixation and sudden insight.
Studies are presented that provide new methods for distinguishing insight problem solving from analytic problem solving, and a general description of recall, problem solving and creative thinking is provided along with relevant experimental evidence. Numerous laboratory studies of creative idea generation are described that reveal the conceptual structures that give rise to imaginative thinking. Visual representations are considered in the context of memory distortions, and in the use of diagrams in scientific discovery. Models that help clarify the relation between comprehension and creativity are discussed and a novel integration of ideas (primary and secondary process thinking, conditioning, genetic algorithms, chaos theory and the thermodynamics of crystallography) are brought together in a connectionist framework. A multivariate investment approach is used to study creative performance, and criteria for assessing and enhancing creative realism are detailed.
Table of Contents
- Introduction - cognitive processes in creative contexts, Steven M. Smith et al. Part 1 Knowledge and insight in creative cognition: origins and consequences of novelty, George Mandler
- intuitive antecedents of insight, Kenneth S. Bowers et al
- 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 and Joseph Melcher
- fixation, incubation, and insight in memory and creative thinking, Steven M. Smith
- what's old about new ideas?, Thomas B. Ward. Part 2 Visual and computational approaches to creative cognition: static patterns moving in the mind, Jennifer J. Freyd and Teresa M. Pantzer
- scientific discovery and creative reasoning with diagrams, Peter C.-H. Cheng and Herbert A. Simon
- making machines creative, Roger C. Schank and Chip Cleary
- creativity and connectionism, Colin Martindale. Part 3 General issues in creative cognition: an investment approach to creativity, Todd I. Lubart and Robert J. Sternberg
- creative realism, Ronald A. Finke
- conclusion - principles, paradoxes, and propects for the future of creative cognition, Steven M. Smith et al.
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: pbk ISBN 9780262512831
Description
Mental processes are the essence of creative endeavor. The Creative Cognition Approach extends this particular view of creativity, first proposed and developed by the editors in their earlier book Creative Cognition, to the programs and theoretical views of some of the most prominent researchers in the areas of problem solving, concept formation, and thinking. Chapters cover a wide range of approaches and processes that play a role in creative cognition, from those that have their roots in associationism (the notion that creative ideas are produced incrementally), to the Gestalt point of view (particularly insight), to current computational approaches. Each chapter deals with central issues in cognition and creativity, and many consider new ways in which creativity can be studied under controlled conditions.
The Creative Cognition Approach begins with a new look at an ancient subject, dreams. It then takes up intuition and insight from a contemporary cognitive perspective, and the importance of using prior knowledge in the incremental view of creative problem solving, which is contrasted with the importance of various forms of fixation and sudden insight. Studies are presented that provide new methods for distinguishing insight problem solving from analytic problem solving, and a general description of recall, problem solving, and creative thinking is provided along with relevant experimental evidence.
Numerous laboratory studies of creative idea generation are described that reveal the conceptual structures that give rise to imaginative thinking. Visual representations are considered in the context of memory distortions, and in the use of diagrams in scientific discovery. Models that help clarify the relation between comprehension and creativity are discussed, and a novel integration of ideas (primary and secondary process thinking, conditioning, genetic algorithms, chaos theory, the thermodynamics of crystallography) are brought together in a connectionist framework. A multivariate investment approach is used to study creative performance, and criteria for assessing and enhancing creative realism are detailed.
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