| 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 | |
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