The agile mind / Wilma Koutstaal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koutstaal, Wilma.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thought and thinking.

Creative thinking.

Divergent thinking.

Adaptability (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (784 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this book, Wilma Koutstaal covers all aspects of agile thought, and how it emerges from and interacts with memory perception, emotion, executive control, motivation, and action as well as how it is related to creativity, mediated by learning and environmental input, enhanced by plasticity, and destroyed by rigidity.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Agility of Mind and the Integrated Controlled-Automatic, Specific-Abstract (iCASA) Framework; THE INTEGRATED CONTROLLED-AUTOMATIC, SPECIFICABSTRACT (iCASA) FRAMEWORK; ABSTRACT AND SPECIFIC REPRESENTATIONAL CONTENT; LEVELS OF CONTROL AND REPRESENTATIONAL PROCESSES; RELATIONS BETWEEN REPRESENTATIONAL SPECIFICITY AND CONTROL; OSCILLATORY RANGE; SUPPORTING AND FORMATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL AND PSYCHOBIOLOGICAL CONDITIONS; DISTINGUISHING AGILE THINKING; FUNCTIONAL AND CONNECTIVITY MAPPING OF THE BRAIN: LEVELS OF SPECIFICITY AND LEVELS OF CONTROL

CONVERGENT THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON AUTOMATICITY AND MULTIPLE GRADATIONS OF LEVELS OF SPECIFICITYEMPHASIS, LIMITATIONS, AND OMISSIONS; STRUCTURE, TONE, AND SUCH; PREVIEW SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTERS; EXCURSION 1: A DUAL DIALOG AND OSCILLATORY RANGE: WILLIAM JAMES ON LEVELS OF SPECIFICITY AND GERTRUDE STEIN ON LEVELS OF CONTROL; Part One: MEMORY, CATEGORIZATION, AND CONCEPTS; 2. Flexibly Using Memory and Categorical Knowledge, Part 1: Levels of Representational Specificity and Thinking; WHEN MEMORY IS TOO SPECIFIC: THE POSSIBLE COSTS OF SUPERIOR MEMORY TO MENTAL AGILITY AND PROBLEM SOLVING

POSSIBLE MECHANISMSTHE CONTRARY EXTREME: EXCESSIVE RELIANCE ON ABSTRACT CATEGORICAL THOUGHT IN CLINICAL DEPRESSION AND CHRONIC WORRY ARE ASSOCIATED WITH IMPAIRED PROBLEM SOLVING; ENGAGING IN A COGNITIVE FLUENCY TASK THAT REQUIRES BOTH ITEM-SPECIFIC AND CATEGORY-BASED KNOWLEDGE ENHANCES SUBSEQUENT "ON-THE-SPOT" PROBLEM SOLVING; INCREASED FACILITY AT FLEXIBLY REMEMBERING RECENT EVENTS AT DIFFERING LEVELS OF SPECIFICITY POSITIVELY CORRELATES WITH FLEXIBLE THINKING AND FLUID REASONING

ADAPTIVE CATEGORIZATION AND PROBLEM SOLVING REQUIRE FLEXIBLE USE OF BOTH HIGHLY DETAILED SPECIFIC INSTANCES AND ABSTRACT, RULE-, OR CATEGORY-BASED KNOWLEDGE3. Flexibly Using Memory and Categorical Knowledge, Part 2: Levels of Control, Representational Specificity, and Thinking; AUTOMATIC THOUGHTS AND LEVELS OF SPECIFICITY: MINDFULNESS TRAINING AS DISLODGING EXCESSIVE ABSTRACTION AND REDUCING HABIT-BASED AUTOMATIC THINKING; RETRIEVING RECENTLY EXPERIENCED EVENTS AT A SPECIFIC VERSUS ABSTRACT LEVEL HAS CARRYOVER CONSEQUENCES FOR LATER RECOLLECTION - AND FOR THINKING

UNCONSCIOUS, UNREFLECTIVE, AND AUTOMATIC ALTERATIONS IN THE EASE WITH WHICH OBJECTS AND EVENTS ARE CONSTRUED AT DIFFERENT LEVELS OF SPECIFICITYTHE BENEFITS OF USING BOTH PROCESSING MODES: EXPLICIT INSTRUCTIONS TO USE BOTH CONTROLLED AND AUTOMATIC RESPONDING CAN ENHANCE CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE; ANALOGIES, SIMILARITIES, AND SUCH: NOT SO CONTROLLED (OR AUTOMATIC) CONTRIBUTORS TO ADAPTIVELY CREATIVE ANALOGICAL AND CATEGORICAL PROBLEM SOLVING; UNFOCUSED ATTENTION, CREATIVITY, AND "MIND POPPING"; LOOKING BACK

EXCURSION 2: LEVELS OF SPECIFICITY IN DOUGLAS HOFSTADTER'S SUBCOGNITIVE MECHANISMS OF FLUID THOUGHT

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-935581-9

0-19-536718-9

0-19-971034-1

OCLC:

775786253