The Nature of Insight
Edited by Janet E. Davidson and Robert J. Sternberg
The Nature of Insight
Edited by Janet E. Davidson, Robert J. Sternberg
The MIT Press
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/4879.001.0001
ISBN electronic: 9780262284370
In Special Collection: CogNet
Publication date: 1994
The Nature of Insight brings together diverse perspectives, including recent theories and discoveries, to examine the nature and origins of insightful thinking, as well as the history of theory and research on the topic and the methods used to study it. There are chapters by the leading experts in this field, including
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi,
Ronald Finke,
Howard Gruber,
Marcel Just,
David Meyer,
David Perkins,
Dean Simonton, and
Robert Weisberg, among others.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Ronald A. Finke, Howard E. Gruber, Marcel Adam Just, David E. Meyer, David N. Perkins, Dean Keith Simonton, and Robert W. Weisberg, among others.
The Nature of Insight is divided into five main parts. Following an introduction that reviews the history and methods of the field, part II looks at how people solve challenging puzzles whose answers cannot be obtained through ordinary means. Part III focuses on how people come up with ideas for new inventions, while part IV explores the thinking of some of the most insightful people in the history of civilization. Part V considers metaphors such as evolution and investment as bases for understanding insight. An epilogue integrates all these approaches.
Contributors R.E. Mayer, R.L. Dominowsk, P. Dallob, C.M. Seifert, D.E. Meyer, N. Davidson, A.J. Patalano, I. Yaniv, J.E. Davidson, R.W. Weisberg, M.L. Gick, R.S. Lockhart, S.M. Smith, R.A. Finke, M.I. Isaak, M.A. Just, M. Csikszentmihalyi, K. Sawyer, K. Dunbar, H.E. Gruber, M.F. Ippolito, R.D. Tweney, D.K. Simonton, D.N. Perkins, R.J. Sternberg, T.I. Lubart
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Table of Contents
[ Front Matter ]
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Foreword
By Janet Metcalfe
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Preface
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I: Introduction
1: The Search for Insight: Grappling with Gestalt Psychology's Unanswered Questions
By Richard E. Mayer
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2: Insight and Problem Solving
By Roger L. Dominowski, Pamela Dallob
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II: The Puzzle-Problem Approach
3: Demystification of Cognitive Insight: Opportunistic Assimilation and the Prepared-Mind Perspective
By Colleen M. Seifert, David E. Meyer, Natalie Davidson, Andrea L. Patalano, Ilan Yaniv
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4: The Suddenness of Insight
By Janet E. Davidson
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5: Prolegomena to Theories of Insight in Problem Solving: A Taxonomy of Problems
By Robert W. Weisberg
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6: Cognitive and Affective Components of Insight
By Mary L. Gick, Robert S. Lockhart
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7: Getting Into and Out of Mental Ruts: A Theory of Fixation, Incubation, and Insight
By Steven M. Smith
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III: The Invention-based Approach
8: Creative Insight and Preinventive Forms
By Ronald A. Finke
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9: Constraints on Thinking in Insight and Invention
By Matthew I. Isaak, Marcel Adam Just
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IV: The Great-Minds Approach
10: Creative Insight: The Social Dimension of a Solitary Moment
By Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Keith Sawyer
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11: How Scientists Really Reason: Scientific Reasoning in Real-World Laboratories
By Kevin Dunbar
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12: Insight and Affect in the History of Science
By Howard E. Gruber
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13: The Inception of Insight
By Maria F. Ippolito, Ryan D. Tweney
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V: The Metaphors-of-Mind Approach
14: Foresight in Insight? A Darwinian Answer
By Dean Keith Simonton
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15: Insight in Minds and Genes
By David N. Perkins
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16: An Investment Perspective on Creative Insight
By Robert J. Sternberg, Todd I. Lubart
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Epilogue: Putting Insight into Perspective
By Jonathan W. Schooler, Marte Fallshore, Stephen M. Fiore
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Contributors
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Author Index
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Subject Index
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© 1996 MIT
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Ronald A. Finke, Howard E. Gruber, Marcel Adam Just, David E. Meyer, David N. Perkins, Dean Keith Simonton, and Robert W. Weisberg, among others.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
One of his findings was that the 10 years' experience of deliberate practice is not a rule, but an average with significant variation around the mean. He found that the people who achieved the greatest lifetime productivity and highest levels of eminence required the least amount of time to achieve expertise. He also found that while too much expertise can hurt one's chances of greatness, the downsides of overtraining in one domain can be ameliorated by the acquisition of expertise among numerous different domains.[11]
Creativity: Understanding innovation in problem solving, science, invention, and the arts.
Abstract
Conventional wisdom holds that creativity is a mysterious quality present in a select few individuals. The rest of us, the common view goes, can only stand in awe of great creative achievements: we could never paint Guernica or devise the structure of the DNA molecule because we lack access to the rarified thoughts and inspirations that bless geniuses like Picasso or Watson and Crick. Presented with this view, today's cognitive psychologists largely differ, finding instead that "ordinary" people employ the same creative thought processes as the greats. Though used and developed differently by different people, creativity can and should be studied as a positive psychological feature shared by all humans. Creativity: Understanding Innovation in Problem Solving, Science, Invention, and the Arts presents the major psychological theories of creativity and illustrates important concepts with vibrant and detailed case studies that exemplify how to study creative acts with scientific rigor. Clearly and engagingly written by noted creativity expert Robert Weisberg, this book takes both students and lay readers on an in-depth journey through contemporary cognitive psychology, showing how the discipline understands one of the most fundamental and fascinating human abilities. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
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