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Insight

On the Origins of New Ideas

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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Research on insight problem solving examines how new ideas are generated to solve problems that initially resist the application of prior knowledge or analogue solutions. In the laboratory, insight problems are designed to create an impasse; overcoming the impasse is sometimes accompanied by a distinctive phenomenological experience, the so-called Aha! moment. Insight: On the Origins of New Ideas presents research that captures these episodes of insight under laboratory conditions and informs models that account for their emergence.Descriptions and analyses of episodes of discovery both in and out of the laboratory are included to provide a general overview of insight. Featuring contributions from leading researchers, the volume debates the relative importance of intelligence and working memory, the development of an alternative interpretation of the problem based on deliberate analyses and heuristics, and unconscious inferences in the emergence of insight. These discussions generate new testable hypotheses to shed light on the cognitive processes underpinning insight, along with concrete methodological recommendations that, together, map a productive programme of future research.This book will be of interest to students and researchers of thinking and reasoning - specifically those interested in insight and creative problem solving.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2018-03-29
Mått156 x 234 x 13 mm
Vikt372 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCurrent Issues in Thinking and Reasoning
Antal sidor218
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781138288089

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IntroductionFrédéric Vallée-Tourangeau1 The dialectic between routine and creative cognitionStellan Ohlsson2 Whose insight is it anyway?Edward M. Bowden and Kristin Grunewald3 Magic tricks, sudden restructuring, and the Aha! experience: a new model of nonmonotonic problem solvingAmory H. Danek4 When does higher working memory capacity help or hinder insight problem solving?Marci S. DeCaro5 Working memory in insight problem solvingKen Gilhooly and Margaret E. Webb6 The relationship of insight problem solving to analytical thinking: evidence from psychometric studiesAdam Chuderski and Jan Jastrzębski7 Breaking past the surface: remote analogical transfer as creative insightTim George and Jennifer Wiley8 An ecological perspective on insight problem solvingSune Vork Steffensen and Frédéric Vallée-Tourangeau9 Insight, problem solving, and creativity: an integration of findingsRobert W. Weisberg

"The papers in this book reflect renewed attention to an old problem; how can we understand the nature of insight? What drives the occurrence of those "Aha!" moments of breakthroughs in problem solving? Since the Gestalt psychologists first addressed the issue, there have been numerous attempts to answer it. Here, we see thoughtful new approaches -- in theory development, in methodological approach, and in the scope of problems and situations examined. The book is replete with suggestions for future research and points the way toward new cognitive understandings of insight. --Ryan D. Tweney, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Bowling Green State University"