Four Mental Operations in Creative Cognition: The Importance of Abstraction
By Hans Welling. 2007
153 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
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In Developmental and Educational Psychology
- Yuan Yuan
- Chang Liu
- Michael Frese
- Wangbing Shen
- Jing Luo
- Michael M. Gielnik
- Samuel T. Hunter
- T. Lewis
In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
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- Michael Frese
- Liliya Cushenbery
- A. Krämer
- Yuan Yuan
- Chang Liu
- Britta Kappel
- Tamara L. Friedrich
Citations in the corpus
- The roles of the temporal lobe in creative insight: an integrated review (2017, background): “Additionally, there are other ways, such as analogising (see Welling, 2007), to trigger insight.”
- Hiring an innovative workforce: A necessary yet uniquely challenging endeavor (2012, background): “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).”
- Antecedents of Business Opportunity Identification and Innovation: Investigating the Interplay of Information Processing and Information Acquisition (2014, background): “…different cognitive processes may underlie idea generation and consequently, they consider divergent thinking to be the end product of more specific cognitive processes, such as conceptual combination/reorganization, analogical reasoning, or abstraction (Mumford, 2003; Ward, 2007; Welling, 2007).”
- Creativity in technology education: providing children with glimpses of their inventive potential (2009, background): “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 ).”
- CREATIVE COMBINATION OF REPRESENTATIONS: SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY AND TECHNOLOGICAL INVENTION (2010, background): “Welling (2007) discusses four creative processes: application of existing knowledge, analogy, combination of concepts, and abstraction.”