Thinking creatively / [electronic resource] Leona E. Tyler.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-214) and index.

Part 1: Thinking creatively about multiple possibilities -- Psychology as a science of life -- Psychology as a science of mind -- Part 2: Areas of psychological research affected by the concept of multiple possibilities -- Perception -- Learning -- Cognitive science -- Social psychology -- Developmental psychology -- Part 3: What the concept of multiple possibilities means to individual lives -- Bringing up children -- Helping troubled people -- Directing and controlling one's own life -- Implications for psychology and psychologists.