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Creativity in the Sciences Michael L. Goodman

Creativity in the Sciences By Michael L. Goodman

Creativity in the Sciences by Michael L. Goodman


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Learning to think innovatively requires practice. This workbook, which serves as a companion to Roberta Ness's Innovation Generation: How to Produce Creative and Useful Scientific Ideas, provides over 150 exercises and activities to hone creative problem-solving skills.

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Creativity in the Sciences: A Workbook Companion to Innovation GenerationI by Michael L. Goodman

Learning to think innovatively requires practice. This workbook, which serves as a companion to Roberta Ness's Innovation Generation: How to Produce Creative and Useful Scientific Ideas, provides over 150 exercises and activities to hone creative problem-solving skills. Workbook tasks include improvisation, insight exercises, and generative skill building. Each chapter addresses doubts that individuals harbor concerning their ability to improve their innovative output, the techniques to work around frames, metaphors and biases in thinking, manipulatives to rearrange problem conceptualization, insight, intuition, collective innovative output from groups, and social and environmental factors that affect creative thinking. The workbook features straightforward and heuristic exercises for both individuals and groups.

About Michael L. Goodman

Michael L. Goodman is a public health scientist and practitioner with interests in global health, as well as health disparities in the United States. He is active with community health projects in Sub-Sahara Africa and Latin America, and enjoys applying innovative thinking practices to the unique problems that arise in settings with limited resources. Aisha S. Dickerson is a doctoral candidate in epidemiology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Her main research interests, which focus on the possible causes of autism, include gene-environment interactions in autism cases, and further understanding this developmental disorder through innovative research studies. Roberta B. Ness is Dean of the University of Texas School of Public Health and the University of Texas - Houston Vice President for Innovation. She is also an internationally renowned physician, scientist, and author of over 300 scientific papers and books.

Table of Contents

Preface ; Chapter 1: Introduction ; Chapter 2: Don't Read This Book ; Chapter 3: It All Depends on How You Look at It ; Chapter 4: Overcoming Frames ; Chapter 5: Say it Like You Mean it ; Chapter 6: Overcoming Metaphors ; Chapter 7: Check This Out! ; Chapter 8: Becoming a Keener Observer ; Chapter 9: How Biased Are You? ; Chapter 10: Overcoming Bias ; Chapter 11: The Brain and Creativity ; Chapter 12: The Joy of Science ; Chapter 13: Asking the Right Questions ; Chapter 14: How is Marriage like a Matchbox ; Chapter 15: Flip it! ; Chapter 16: A Man Walked Into a Bar ; Chapter 17: The Power of Group Intelligence ; Chapter 18: Getting the Most from a Group ; Chapter 19: Intuition ; Chapter 20: Testing Your Idea ; Chapter 21: That Right Idea ; Chapter 22: Overcoming the Stodginess of Science ; Chapter 23: Innovation Incubators ; References ; Index of Exercises by Type

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CIN0199915547VG
9780199915545
0199915547
Creativity in the Sciences: A Workbook Companion to Innovation GenerationI by Michael L. Goodman
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Oxford University Press Inc
20130207
240
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