Insight and Creativity in Problem Solving

ISBN-13: 9781138502475 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 170 str.

Kenneth J. Gilhooly; Linden J. Ball; Laura Macchi

Opis

There has been an upsurge of research aimed at removing the mystery surrounding insight and creative thinking processes in problem solving. Chapters in this volume converge on a nuanced ‘dual-process’ view of insight and creative thinking. It was originally published as a special issue of Thinking and Reasoning.

Spis treści

Preface  1. Insight and creative thinking processes: Routine and special  2. Toward an integrated theory of insight in problem solving  3. The shifting sands of creative thinking: Connections to dual-process theory  4. Reasoned connections: A dual-process perspective on creative thought  5. When distraction helps: Evidence that concurrent articulation and irrelevant speech can facilitate insight problem solving  6. A sketch is not enough: Dynamic external support increases creative insight on a guided synthesis task  7. Incubation and cueing effects in problem-solving: Set aside the difficult problems but focus on the easy ones  8. Incubation and suppression processes in creative problem solving  9. When analytic thought is challenged by a misunderstanding