Beskova, I. A. Cognitive-psychological aspects of creative thinking

Abstract: The article analyzes the questions related to the peculiarity of creative thinking. It is explained why people of different cultures can retrieve information by using alternative (including archaic) forms of perception and storing data. These are the forms which make intuition and “insight” possible. The author researched the very different kind of unconscious thinking processes of people with a high creative potential (in particular, their ability to operate the contradictory information). The author described a specific conceptual framework used by the creative people. The framework involves: source database, nature of associations, status of cognitive stereotypes in their thinking, role of verbalized information and etc. The article also covers some specific features of their emotional sphere and how it influences their thinking.

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