Example of Cornell Method:

Essay Question:
'Imagination is the basis of all mental life'. Discuss.

 

Bibliographic details: Raskall, P.N. (1997) The Psychology of Imagination.Sydney: Harper & Row.
Themes	Notes	Comments/ Cros-refs
Definition of imagination	"Imagination is defined as that mental faculty which enables to link sensory impressions and thought" p.23	What does this mean? Perhaps that without imagination the world would appear to be a chaotic jumble??
Anti-imagination	"Recourse to 'imagination' in explanations of creative thought betray a type of nostalgia for a bygone romantic age which in fact never existed. There is no function of human understanding which, theoretically, cannot be adequately, and non-mysteriously, accounted for in terms of information processing and retrieval" p.39	This is rubbish! human understanding is largely impoverished without the contributions of imagination. (see Jones & Brown, 1997, p 115)

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