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• Title:Applied imagination : principles and procedures of creative problem-solving.
  
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• Author/Creator:Osborn, Alex F. (Alex Faickney)
  
• Published/Created:New York, Scribner [1963]
  

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  • Location:ASRS STORAGE (IKB) (Order via Document Delivery)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: BF408 .O775 1963
    
  • Number of Items:2
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: BF408 .O775 1963
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:c.5 On loan - Due on 04-22-2024
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Creative thinking.
  
• Subject(s): Creativiteit.
  Probleemoplossing.
  Kreativität.
  
• Edition:3d rev. ed.
  
• Description:417 pages ; 21 cm
  
• Additional formats:Also issued online.
  
• ISBN:0684413930 (pbk.)
  9780684413938 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:The all-importance of imagination
  Universality of imaginative talent
  Creative and non-creative forms of imagination
  Factors that tend to cramp creativity
  Our new environment: its effect on creativity
  Ways by which creativity can be developed
  The creative problem-solving process
  Preparation and analysis go hand in hand
  The basis of idea-finding: "association of ideas"
  Principles and procedures of deliberate idea-finding
  Individual ideation and team collaboration
  Creative collaboration by groups
  Detailed procedures of group brainstorming
  Processing of tentative ideas
  Devices designed to help activate idea-production
  Questions as spurs to ideation
  Adaptation, modification, and substitution
  Addition, multiplication, subtraction, division
  Rearrangement, reversal, and combination
  The effect of emotional drives on ideation
  The effect of effort on creativity
  Periods of incubation invite illumination
  The element of luck in creative quests
  Evolution and obsolescence of "new" ideas
  Indispensability of creativity in science
  Careers depend largely upon creativity
  Creativity in leadership and in professions
  Imagination can improve personal relations.