Creative Model Construction in Scientists and Students : The Role of Imagery, Analogy, and Mental Simulation

John Clement

ISBN 10: 1402067119 / ISBN 13: 9781402067112

Editore: Springer Netherlands, Springer Netherlands, 2008

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - How do scientists use analogies and other processes to break away from old theories and generate new ones This book documents such methods through the analysis of video tapes of scientifically trained experts thinking aloud while working on unfamiliar problems. Some aspects of creative scientific thinking are difficult to explain, such as the power of analogies, the use of physical intuition, and the enigmatic ability to learn from thought experiments. The book examines the hypothesis that these processes are based on imagistic mental simulation as an underlying mechanism. This allows the analysis of insight ('Aha!') episodes of creative theory formation. Advanced processes examined include specialized conserving transformations, Gedanken experiments, and adjusted levels of divergence in thinking. Student interviews are used to show that students have natural abilities for many of these basic reasoning and model construction processes and that this has important implications for expanding instructional theories of conceptual change and inquiry. 'I regard this work as the most comprehensive account ever attempted to show how imagistic, analogic, and sensory-motor representations participate in creative thinking.' Professor Ryan Tweney.

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• Titolo: Creative Model Construction in Scientists and Students : The Role of Imagery, Analogy, and Mental Simulation
• Editore: Springer Netherlands, Springer Netherlands
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1402067119
• ISBN 13: 9781402067112
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 241 L x 160 A x 39 P (millimetri) 241 millimetri di larghezza per 160 millimetri di altezza per 39 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 1103 grammi

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How do scientists use analogies and other processes to break away from old theories and generate new ones? This book documents such methods through the analysis of video tapes of scientifically trained experts thinking aloud while working on unfamiliar problems. Some aspects of creative scientific thinking are difficult to explain, such as the power of analogies, and the enigmatic ability to learn from thought experiments. This book is a window on that world.

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How do scientists use analogies and other processes to break away from old theories and generate new ones? This book documents such methods through the analysis of video tapes of scientifically trained experts thinking aloud while working on unfamiliar problems. Some aspects of creative scientific thinking are difficult to explain, such as the power of analogies, the use of physical intuition, and the enigmatic ability to learn from thought experiments. The book examines the hypothesis that these processes are based on imagistic mental simulation as an underlying mechanism. This allows the analysis of insight ("Aha!") episodes of creative theory formation. Advanced processes examined include specialized conserving transformations, Gedanken experiments, and adjusted levels of divergence in thinking. Student interviews are used to show that students have natural abilities for many of the basic reasoning and model construction processes and that this has important implications for expanding instructional theories of conceptual change and inquiry.

"I regard this work as the most comprehensive account ever attempted to show how imagistic, analogic, and sensory-motor representations participate in creative thinking."

Professor Ryan Tweney, Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA