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Reasoned Connections: A Dual-Process Perspective On Creative Thinking

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Reasoned Connections: A Dual-Process Perspective on Creative Thought
Mandi T. Bishop
PSY 305: Cognition
June 4, 2018

Abstract
Creativity is a crucial connection between reasoning and intelligence. The following is written about the empirical research article titled: Reasoned connections: A dual-process perspective on creative thought. Reisberg’s textbook asks, “What goes on in the creative mind?” and proceeds to describe four distinct stages of creativity. The article will be conducive to understanding the pathways or types of process that the stages depend on in the neural network. The methods in the article operationalize creativity to distinguish and reflect on the processes of executive functioning and dual process theories. …show more content…

The topic leads to many questions. Why are some people more creative than others? How does the process of creativity work? The article Reasoned Connections explains that there is little research on creativity and if it is part of the dual process theory. There is much to be discovered on this topic and how it relates to thinking, reasoning, problem solving, and intelligence. The finding of this study and future work that can be initiated from it, will help to answer these questions.

SUMMARY
The researchers asked the question of which type of thinking in the dual process model is beneficial to creativity. Their hypothesis was that Type II thinking would be the path to reveal and make use of creativity.
The methods of the experiments began with one-hundred and two Undergraduate Students in which 66 were female. The experiment was a two-part study and the students were offered course credit for their participation. There were cognitive tasks, a questionnaire and creativity tasks. In all participants completed at least a dozen different tasks to test their analytical thinking, cognitive ability, intuitions, and fluency. The study’s design is mostly correlational but, the analogy task includes an experimental …show more content…

According to Reisberg, Type I is fast and easy. Heuristics are used and fall into this category. Type II processing is slower, requires more effort, but is also more accurate. This type of thinking is termed analytic and is far less likely to make the heuristic based errors in Type I thinking. There is evidence that when judgement matters people switch their thought process from Type I to Type II. There are many questions to study concerning this subject, but they must be done one step at a time and build upon previous

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