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Mental Leaps: Analogy in Creative Thought

Mental Leaps: Analogy in Creative Thought

Paperback

General Psychology

ISBN10: 0262581442
ISBN13: 9780262581448
Publisher: Bradford Book
Published: Jan 31 1996
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.79 Width: 5.98 Depth: 8.94
Language: English
Analogy--recalling familiar past situations to deal with novel ones--is a mental tool that everyone uses. Analogy can provide invaluable creative insights, but it can also lead to dangerous errors. In Mental Leaps two leading cognitive scientists show how analogy works and how it can be used most effectively. Keith Holyoak and Paul Thagard provide a unified, comprehensive account of the diverse operations and applications of analogy, including problem solving, decision making, explanation, and communication.

Holyoak and Thagard present their own theory of analogy, considering its implications for cognitive science in general, and survey examples from many other domains. These include animal cognition, developmental and social psychology, political science, philosophy, history of science, anthropology, and literature.

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Holyoak, Keith J.

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General Psychology