Vallée-Tourangeau Insight

On the Origins of New Ideas
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-97510-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 228 Seiten

Reihe: Current Issues in Thinking and Reasoning

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Is Insight in the Eye of the Beholder or the Solver?

- Executive Functions in Insight and Creative Problem Solving

- Nothing Special with Special Add-ons: Review of Psychometric, Behavioural, and Neuronal Evidence on Mechanisms of Insight Problem Solving

- Working Memory and Insight Problem Solving: When Greater Capacity Limits Associative Thinking

- Magic Tricks as a Window into Insight Problem Solving

- Escaping from Old Ideas: Breaking through Fixation in Creative Problem Solving

- How the Study of Hints Has Informed an Understanding of Insight Processes in Problem Solving

- An Ecological Perspective on Insight Problem Solving

- The Dialectic Between Extrapolation of Experience and Acts of Creation

- Ordinary Thinking, Insight, Problem Solving, and Creativity: Toward and Integration of Findings

Über Autor(innen)

Frédéric Vallée-Tourangeau is Professor of Psychology at Kingston University, UK