Phil/Psych 447

Seminar in Cognitive Science

Instructions for Essay 2

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Week 9:

Questions about motivation (ch. 18)

1. Aside: What is philosophical creativity?
   1. What are the products?
   2. What are the uses?
   3. What are the selection criteria?
   4. What are the cognitive processes?
   5. What are the motivations?
   6. What are the social processes?
2. What are the neural, psychological, and social mechanisms by which motivation enhances creativity?
3. What is the main experimental evidence that motivation influences creativity?
4. Why is intrinsic motivation important for creativity?
5. How does positive emotion contribute to creativity?
6. Can groups have motivations?

Questions about group creativity (ch. 19)

1. What is emergence? How does it occur in complex systems?
2. What is collaborative emergence?
3. How do new ideas emerge through group interactions?
4. What are the best candidates for social mechanisms that are part of general creativity?
5. What are the best candidates for social mechanisms that are part of creativity in specific domains?

Phil/Psych 447

Paul Thagard

Computational Epistemology Laboratory.

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