Four Mental Operations in Creative Cognition: The Importance of Abstraction

Welling, Hans

doi:10.1080/10400410701397214

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“…Analogical thinking is defined as the transposition of a conceptual structure from one habitual setting to another new setting (Welling, 2007). Dunbar (1995) identified three kinds of analogy in scientific work, including local analogies (one part of one experiment is related to a second experiment), regional analogies (systems that are developed in one domain and used in a similar domain) and long-distance analogies (systems that are developed in one domain but used in a dissimilar domain).…”

Section: Cognitive Approach To Creativitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Creativity and Innovation: Basic Concepts and Approaches

Tang¹

2017

Handbook of the Management of Creativity and Innovation

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Section: Cognitive Approach To Creativitymentioning

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Creativity and Innovation: Basic Concepts and Approaches

Tang¹

2017

Handbook of the Management of Creativity and Innovation

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“…Combination involves merging two ideas or concepts into a third such that the resulting synthesis is autonomous and of utility in its own right (see Scott et al 2005;Welling 2007). It is felt that people who are creatively inclined have greater associative propensities than those less so, and are able to arrive at combinations through remote associations.…”

Section: Combination Thinkingmentioning

confidence: 98%

Creativity in technology education: providing children with glimpses of their inventive potential

Lewis

2008

Int J Technol Des Educ

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This article examines the claims of the school subject technology education (called Design and Technology in some countries) as a vehicle for inculcating creativity in the curriculum, by introducing children to the world of problem solving and invention. Core foundational underpinnings of the subject are explored, including its hands-on nature, its open-endedness, and its encouragement of generative cognitive processes. Issues relating to the teaching of problem solving are discussed. Examples of curricular approaches to the subject are set forth and their merits as bases for encouraging creative thinking are examined. Research on creativity in the subject is reflected upon briefly. The paper concludes by offering problem solving; and analogical, metaphorical, combination, and divergent thinking, as possible bases for pedagogy in technology education, and calls attention to the subject as a possible fruitful area of research based on creativity in the school curriculum.

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“…Several scholars have suggested that an employees' ability to engage in analogical thinking will predict creative performance (e.g., Dreistadt, 1968;Gordon, 1966;Harrington, 1981;Welling, 2007). Analogical thinking ability is generally viewed as an individual's ability to recognize similarities between a previous problem and a current one, in turn using solutions from the former to solve the latter.…”

Section: Analogical Abilitymentioning

confidence: 98%