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Preface | |
Introduction Cognitive Processes in Creative Contexts | |
Knowledge and Insight in Creative Cognition | |
Origins and Consequences of Novelty | |
Varieties of Creation | |
Individual versus Social Definitions of Creativity | |
Deliberate versus Nonintentional Creations | |
Goal-Defined Creativity | |
Subjective Sense of Novelty | |
Degrees of Novelty | |
Continuous versus Discontinuous Problem Solving | |
Dreams: Novelty and Consciousness | |
Activation, (Un)consciousness, and Creativity | |
The Challenge of Novelty | |
Notes | |
References | |
Intuitive Antecedents of Insight | |
Defining Intuition | |
Research Findings | |
Waterloo Gestalt Closure Task (WGES) | |
Dyads of Triads Task (DOT) | |
Accumulated Clues Task (ACT) | |
Partial Word Task (PWOT) | |
Individual Differences | |
Conclusion | |
Notes | |
References | |
Case Studies of Creative Thinking: Reproduction versus Restructuring in the Real World | |
Continuity, Discontinuity, and Restructuring | |
Case Studies in Reproductive Creativity | |
Creativity without Restructuring | |
Case Studies of Restructuring | |
Productive Thinking: On Going beyond Past Experience | |
Case Studies of Creativity: Conclusions | |
References | |
Productive Problem Solving | |
Obstacles to Solution | |
Functional Fixedness | |
Inappropriate Organization | |
Inadequate Monitoring | |
Fixation | |
How Solutions Occur | |
Effects of Hints | |
Changing Representations: Heuristics and Spreading Activation | |
Learning to Solve Insight Problems | |
References | |
The Ineffability of Insight | |
Theoretical Characterizations of Insight | |
Pre-Information Processing Approaches | |
Information Processing Views of Insight | |
Empirical Demonstrations of the Disruptive Effects of Language | |
A Comparison of Insight and Analytic Problem-Solving Protocols | |
Method/Coding Scheme | |
Statement Elements as Predictors of Success | |
Summary | |
Individual Differences and Insight | |
Method | |
Results and Discussion | |
Summary | |
Conclusions | |
Notes | |
References | |
Fixation, Incubation, and Insight in Memory and Creative Thinking | |
Patterns of Cognition | |
Searching within a Plan versus Restructuring | |
A Plan-Determined Road Map | |
Metacognitive Monitoring | |
Implicit Fixation | |
Destabilization | |
Restructuring as Changing Plans | |
Phenomena Explained | |
Fixation | |
Incubation and Contextual Fluctuation | |
Insight Experiences | |
Summary | |
Predictions | |
Conclusion | |
Notes | |
References | |
What's Old about New Ideas? | |
Structured Imagination in the Real World | |
Structured Imagination in the Laboratory | |
A Framework for Predictions and a Null Hypothesis | |
Mapping of Basic Properties | |
Correlated Attributes | |
Considering the Imaginer's Intent | |
Novelty Embedded within Structure | |
Using Broader Knowledge: Novelty and Appropriateness | |
Structured Imagination in Science Fiction and Speculative Science | |
Overcoming or Controlling the Structuring of New Ideas | |
The Path of Least Resistance | |
A Caveat | |
Relation to Traditional Creativity Topics | |
Fixation | |
Restructuring | |
Summary and Conclusions | |
References | |
Visual and Computational Approaches to Creative Cognition | |
Static Patterns Moving in the Mind | |
Dynamic Mental Representations | |
Experiment 1 | |
Method | |
Results and Discussion | |
Experiment 2 | |
Method | |
Results and Discussion | |
Experiment 3 | |
Method | |
Results and Discussion | |
General Discussion | |
Summary | |
Implications for Aesthetics | |
Dynamic Representations as Medium for Creative Cognition | |
Future Research and Conclusion | |
Notes | |
References | |
Scientific Discovery and Creative Reasoning with Diagrams | |
Reasoning and Discovery with Diagrams | |
Conservation Laws as One-Dimensional Diagrams | |
The HUYGENS System | |
Operators | |
Regularity Spotters | |
Heuristics | |
Simulation of a Discovery | |
Benefits and Limitations | |
Beyond One-Dimensional Diagrammatic Law Induction | |
Conclusions | |
Notes | |
References | |
Making Machines Creative | |
Why Study Creativity? | |
What Do We Want to Know? | |
The Mechanics of Creativity | |
The Link between Creative and Routine Processing | |
An Unsatisfactory Theory: Bottom-up Inferencing | |
Starting at the Start: Routine Understanding | |
Creative Understanding | |
Summary of the Processes of Creativity | |
Where the Tough Problems Are | |
Implications for a Theory of Creativity | |
Notes | |
References | |
Creativity and Connectionism | |
Creative Ideas | |
The Creative Process | |
Theories of Creativity | |
Common Sense and Some Facts | |
Blind Variation and Selective Retention | |
Defocused Attention | |
Associative Hierarchies and Creativity | |
Primary Process Thinking and Creativity | |
Creativity and Arousal | |
Some Conclusions | |
Simulated Annealing and Creativity | |
Conclusions | |
References | |
General Issues in Creative Cognition | |
An Investment Approach to Creativity: Theory and Data | |
Six Resources for Creativity and Their Confluence | |
Study 1: Testing the Investment Resources for Creativity | |
Method | |
Results and Discussion | |
Aspects of Creative Performance | |
Person-Centered Resources and Creative Performance | |
Study 2: Cognitive Risk Taking and Creative Performance | |
Method | |
Results and Discussion | |
Conclusions | |
Notes | |
References | |
Creative Realism | |
Dimensions of Creative Realism | |
Conservative Realism | |
Creative Idealism | |
Conservative Idealism | |
Creative Realism | |
Examples of Creative Realism | |
Invention and Design | |
Scientific Theories | |
Art, Music, and Film | |
Everyday Thinking | |
The Need for Creative Realism | |
Assessing Creative Realism | |
Objective Criteria | |
Subjective Criteria | |
Psychological Criteria | |
Failures to Achieve Creative Realism | |
Overextensions of Imaginative Divergence | |
Absence of Imaginative Divergence | |
Overstructuring the Creative Process | |
Enhancing Creative Realism | |
Generating New Ideas with Creative Realism in Mind | |
Recognizing Failures of Creative Realism | |
Implications of Creative Realism | |
Creative Cognition and the Geneplore Model | |
Applications of Creative Realism | |
Creative Talent | |
Concluding Comments | |
References | |
Conclusion Paradoxes, Principles, and Prospects for the Future of Creative Cognition | |
Name Index | |
Subject Index | |
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