These findings are discussed with respect to the state vs. trait distinction in creativity and likely neural mechanisms of creative reasoning.
To begin with, it is true that algorithm-based math is not creative reasoning.
The upshot is that it would be naïve to assume that we can somehow promote original thinking in specific areas simply by calling for subject-related creative reasoning.
But the scholar is Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the senior Democratic senator for New York, and perhaps his voice, his manner, his lateral leaps of creative reasoning are a shade too eccentric to make him a talk-show regular.
In some cases, as with her felon disenfranchisement dissent, Judge Sotomayor has lauded "judicial restraint" and expressed disapproval of judges who come up with creative reasoning seemingly to achieve policy outcomes.
In this paper, we propose a theoretical framework to model fixation based on C-K design theory, in which fixation is characterized as a set of restrictive heuristics activated in a creative reasoning.
The College catalogue states: "Wofford's [GE] program seeks to develop skills in reading, written and oral communication, use of technology, critical thinking, creative expression, numerical reasoning, problem solving, and collaborative and independent learning".
It is a much more flexible and often creative form of reasoning that allows this sort of expert to select appropriate courses of action, modify those actions if they turn out to not satisfy his or her intention, and possibly even invent new strategies in the face of novel problems.
The major components of R&R are self-control, meta-cognition (thinking strategies as a means of regulating behaviour), social skills, interpersonal cognitive problem-solving skills, creative thinking, critical reasoning, social perspective-taking, values enhancement, emotional management and helper therapy (peer mentoring) [ 10, 11].
We have previously used LSA to obtain a quantifiable measure of creativity in analogical reasoning, establishing a continuum of semantic distance between within-domain (less creative) and cross-domain (more creative) analogical reasoning (Green, Fugelsang, & Dunbar, 2006; Green, Fugelsang, Kraemer, & Dunbar, 2008; Green, Kraemer, Fugelsang, Gray, & Dunbar, 2010, in press).
They said the decision did not appear to include any creative or unusual legal reasoning that might explain why it took so long to produce.
