Building Our Theories

Choose one of the following tasks to do for next week, or come up with your own related task.

1) Look over all the diagrams that we created and create a master diagram that sums up the commonalities in them all.

2) After you look over all the diagrams that we created maybe you will notice that they cannot be reduced to one master diagram. If this is the case, reduce them to two (or three) diagrams. Begin to think about how the two (or three) diagrams you came up with differ, what different predictions they make, and how we might test them.

3) Look at the eight theories from the literature that I presented. Which of the theories do you think is the most promising to build upon? Is there some way to combine two or more of the theories into a grander theory?

4) Compare the eight theories from the literature with the diagrams that we created. Are there important things mentioned in the eight theories that we left out of our diagrams. If so, create a new diagram that incorporates it.

5) Come up with your own task for next week. That is, come up with your own next step for building a theory of insight problem solving.