Creative cognition : theory, research, and applications /
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| Author / Creator: | Finke, Ronald A. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1992. |
| Description: | vi, 239 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1395472 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction to Creative Cognition
- Overview
- The Goals of Creative Cognition
- Identifying Creative Cognitive Processes
- Establishing General Principles
- Anticipating Creative Discoveries
- Developing Practical Techniques
- Demystification of Creativity
- Avoiding Circularity in Defining Creativity
- Avoiding Minimization of the Concept
- Previous Approaches to Creativity
- Case Studies
- Psychoanalytic Approaches
- Psychometric Approaches
- Sociological and Historiometric Approaches
- Multiple Components Approaches
- Pragmatic Approaches
- Artificial Intelligence Approaches
- Scope of Creative Cognition
- Creative Visualization
- Creative Invention
- Conceptual Synthesis
- Structured Imagination
- Fixation, Incubation, and Insight
- Creative Strategies for Problem Solving
- General Applications of Creative Cognition
- Theoretical and Methodological Considerations
- A General Model
- Overall Structure of the Geneplore Model
- Generative Processes
- Preinventive Structures
- Preinventive Properties
- Exploratory Processes
- Product Constraints
- Function Follows Form
- Creativity and Randomness
- Everyday Creativity and Creative Genius
- Structuring Creative Opportunities
- Predicting Creative Performance
- Avoiding Demand Characteristics
- Constraining Creative Opportunities
- Experimental Procedures and Controls
- Employing Novel Situations or Tasks
- Restricting Elements and Components
- Restricting Domains of Interpretation
- Suspending Expertise
- Encouraging Hypothetical Exploration
- Creating and Overcoming Mental Blocks
- Obtaining Introspective Reports
- Assessing Individual Differences
- Motivational Factors
- Overcoming the Fear of Creativity
- Creating Intimacy
- Encouraging Playfulness
- Inherent Joy of Creative Discovery
- Evaluating Creative Products
- Originality
- Practicality and Sensibility
- Productivity and Flexibility
- Marketability and Feasibility
- Inclusiveness
- Insightfulness
- General Issues in Creativity Assessment
- Judgment and Classification
- Manifest and Inspirational Qualities
- Cultural Context
- Summary
- Creative Visualization
- Mental Synthesis and Transformation
- Anecdotal Accounts of Visual Thinking
- Chronometric Studies of Mental Synthesis and Scanning
- Chronometric Studies of Mental Transformation
- Limitations of Chronometric Approaches
- Emergent Features in Mental Images
- Reinterpreting Mental Images
- Evidence for Visual Discoveries in Imagery
- Controls for Guessing and Expectation
- Effects of Pattern Goodness
- Creative Visual Discoveries
- Limitations of Previous Studies
- Explorations of Creative Visual Synthesis
- Examples of Creative Visual Patterns
- Controls for Guessing and Experimenter Bias
- Introspective Reports
- Creative Synthesis versus Creative Interpretation
- Externalizing the Creative Process
- Comparing Mental and Physical Synthesis
- Strategies for Creative Construction
- Summary
- Theoretical Implications
- Practical Implications
- Creative Invention
- A Paradigm for Invention
- Creative Mental Synthesis of Real-World Objects
- Restricting Object Parts and Categories
- Examples of Creative Inventions
- Restricting Object Types and Functions
- Introspective Reports
- Preinventive Forms
- Further Support for the Geneplore Model
- Examples of Creative Inventions Based on Preinventive Forms
- Importance of Generating One's Own Forms
- Removing Time Restrictions
- Spanning the Object Categories Using a Single Preinventive Form
- General Strategies for Interpreting Preinventive Forms
- From Preinventive Form to Final Product
- Creative Refinement
- Creative Modifications of Existing Designs
- Examples of Creative Refinements
- Summary
- Theoretical Implications
- Practical Implications
- Conceptual Synthesis
- Creative Concepts
- Conceptual Interpretations of Preinventive Forms
- Examples of Creative Concepts
- Restricting Subject Categories
- Suspension of Expertise in Forming Creative Concepts
- Conceptual Combination
- Emergent Properties and Creative Exploration
- Varieties of Conceptual Combination
- The Attribute Inheritance Model
- The Selective Modification Model
- The Concept Specialization Model
- The Role of Incongruity
- Literal and Figurative Combinations
- Metaphor
- The Salience Imbalance Model
- The Domain Interaction Model
- The Class Inclusion Model
- Summary
- Theoretical Implications
- Practical Implications
- Structured Imagination
- Imagination
- The Concept of Structured Imagination
- Traditional Approaches to Categorization
- The Exemplar Generation Paradigm
- A Planet Like Earth
- Basic Level Contrasts
- A Planet Different from Earth
- Correlated Attributes
- Structures and Processes in Structured Imagination
- Simple Categorization Models
- The Importance of Naive Theories
- Bigger Structures: Schemas and Mental Models
- Schemas
- Mental Models
- Structured Imagination in Highly Creative Works
- Imaginative Creatures in Movies
- Mythical Beings and Transformations
- Overcoming Influences of Unwanted Attributes
- Summary
- Theoretical Implications
- Practical Implications
- Insight, Fixation, and Incubation
- Memory Mechanisms in Creative Cognition
- Retrieval Versus Restructuring
- Classic Reports of Insight
- Early Laboratory Demonstrations
- Reinterpretations of Insight
- The Catastrophic Nature of Insight
- Geneplore and the Memory Hypothesis
- Incubation, Fixation, and Recovery
- An Alternative Approach to Incubation
- Fixation in Traditional Cognitive Tasks
- Fixation in Creative Idea Generation
- A Positive Use of Forgetting
- Spreading Activation as a Mechanism for Incubation
- Contextual Cues and the Use of Analogy
- Spontaneous Analogical Transfer
- Context-Dependent Memory
- Contextual Cues and Analogical Transfer
- Summary
- Theoretical Implications
- Practical Implications
- Creative Strategies for Problem Solving
- Creative Reasoning and Exploration
- Types of Problems
- Well-Defined Versus Ill-Defined Problems
- Insight Problems
- General Problem-Solving Strategies
- Algorithms and Heuristics
- Induction
- Using Mental Images
- Exploring Mental Models
- Analogical Reasoning
- Mental Blocks
- Metacognition and Problem Solving
- Intuition
- Protocol Analysis
- Divergent Thinking
- Finding Alternative Uses
- Remote Association
- Brainstorming
- Creative Expertise
- Summary
- Theoretical Implications
- Practical Implications
- General Implications and Applications
- Summary of Theoretical Implications
- Implications of the Geneplore Model
- Ecological Validity of Creative Cognition
- Creative Artificial Intelligence
- Components of Creative Cognition
- Preconscious Processes in Creative Thinking
- Limitations of Creative Cognition
- Constraints on Reinterpretation
- Constraints on Mental Transformation
- General Capacity Limitations
- Recommendations for Creativity Training
- Applying the Principles of Creative Cognition
- Adopting Attitudes Conducive to Creativity
- Creativity versus Competence
- Creativity Training in the Sciences
- General Applications
- Product Development
- Architecture
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Education
- Psychotherapy
- Creative Writing
- Predicting Future Trends
- Additional Applications
- Future Directions
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index