Creativity: Understanding Innovation in Problem Solving, Science, Invention, and the Arts

by Robert W. Weisberg

How cognitive psychology explains human creativity Conventional wisdom holds that creativity is a mysterious quality present in a select few individuals. The rest of us, the common view goes, can only stand in awe of great creative achievements: we could never paint Guernica or devise the structure of the DNA molecule because we lack access to the rarified thoughts and inspirations that bless geniuses like Picasso or Watson and Crick. Presented with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471739995
• ISBN13: 9780471739999
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 622 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.5"