The nature of insight / edited by Robert J. Sternberg and Janet E. Davidson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davidson, Janet E., editor.

Sternberg, Robert J., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Insight.

Problem solving.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 618 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

MIT Press CogNet.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [1995]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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 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.

Notes:

"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Nature of insight.

ISBN:

9780262284370

0262284375

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.