The Creative Cognition Approach

By Steven M. Smith

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026219354X
• ISBN13: 9780262193542
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Bradford Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.5"