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Sternberg, Robert J. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1998
Argues that the cognitive mechanisms in human creativity are, for the most part, sighted rather than blind. Reviews attempts to apply evolutionary ideas to psychology and argues that these ideas do not apply to the psychology of human creativity. An alternative sighted-variation framework is then proposed. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Creative Development, Creative Thinking