Composite Theories: George Haslerud

Marcelo Valderrey

25 Jun, 2024 01:24 PM

To seriously study creativity, it is useful to know something about the first scientific efforts to define and explain it, attributable to psychology.

1. Step 1: Small doses...visuals!

   The idiosyncrasies, concepts and language of mechanical engineering are somewhat distant from the psychological approach and it is easy for the reader to lose the thread of the explanations by becoming entangled with its specific terminology and its forms of expression.

   For this reason, I have preferred to extract small fragments of the theories of creativity and make an effort to create my own graphic image for them.

   My graphics involve the risk of biasing and/or distorting the original ideas, which also exists when trying to paraphrase them, but it brings the will to understand them and translate them into engineering language in the hope of bringing both approaches closer together.

   To this end, I have relied on research works that compile and summarize these theories. In particular, the work of authors Busse & Mansfield that appears in the quotes in the next step of the tutorial.

2. Step 2: Composite Theories: George Haslerud

   Busse & Mansfield (pp. 52-53) cite George Haslerud's theory (Transfer, memory and creativity, 1972) derived from associative, gestalt influences and learning theory, with various constructs that explain his creative process (PROJECSCAN). It is illustrated from the idea of ​​the “theater of perception” that the theory mentions as an area of ​​evaluation of ideas.

   
   

   References:

   • Busse, T. V., & Mansfield, R. S. (1984). Teorías del proceso creador: revisión y perspectiva. (©. 2.-2. reservados, Ed.) Studies in Psychology = Estudios de Psicología, nº 18 (traducido del Journal of Creative Behavior, num. 2, vol. 14, 91-103, 1980), 47-57. Recuperado el 18 de diciembre de 2020, de https://dialnet.unirioja.es/ejemplar/7049
   • Haslerud, G. M. (1972). Transfer, memory and creativity. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

   
   

3. Step 3: My graphic interpretation

   Composite Theory: George Haslerud (1972)

   

   
   

   Note. Everything is part of a large “store” of information, experiences, innate reflexes and conditioning that are brought together through “integration sets” and form “memory spirals” with individual meaning and links with others who have data in common. The "projecscan" consciously or unconsciously rehearses "new integration sets" in the "perceptual future", and from them emerge "new spirals" (ideas) that are evaluated in the "theater of perception", contrasting them with the environment. external and with other spirals already present in the “apperceptive mass”. If “surprise” is perceived in the theater, the idea generates an “insight” whose logic and coherence are consciously evaluated, using skills (e.g. mathematics) to develop it and then consolidate it as a spiral of long-term memory. Source: illustration by the author.

   
   

   Reference: all texts and images in this tutorial were extracted from the doctoral thesis cited below,

   • Valderrey, M.E. (2021), “Catalizadores Creativos en Ingeniería Conceptual: Evaluación de Habilidades Visuales y Verbales para Diseño Mecánico”. Propuesta de tesis doctoral, UNINI-México.

   
   

   
   

   
   

4. Step 4: Links

   This tutorial comes from:

   Composite Theories: Howard Gruber

   and continues in:

   Theory of Creativity in Science: Busse & Mansfield