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Imagination as universal human ability
DOI of the paper: 10.15382/sturIV201539.108-117
Abstract
Scientific and research opinions according to the nature of human imagination are reviewed in this article. Different approaches to the essence and features of the imagination are analyzed. Special attention is attended to the investigation of basic feature of imagination such as “seeing” something in whole before its’ parts. This allows person to see things like other people see them. The characteristics of imagination revealed by scientists and the change of the dominance in the development of the imagination by stages are reviewed.
Keywords
imagination, the ability to see the whole before its parts, creative activity, especially of the imagination, symbolic substitution, the stages of development of the imagination.
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