THINKING PROCESS

Thinking Process

Thinking Process

Introduction

Creativity, today, has taken an important place in both the academic and personal prospects. In this unit we will discuss the concept of creative thinking and creative problem solving. It also addresses a simple way the different components of this human activity. Moreover, as a human activity which happens to be is important to analyze the different factors that may influence both the development of creative potential people as to what we define as "creative personality". Moreover, we will also analyze the concept of divergent and convergent thinking and will observe the balancing of both these terms.

Discussion

Creativity and Creative Thinking

In every moment of life presents situations and problems which need to be solved, and for this to occur, the brain must act jointly establishing a perfect balance between the two hemispheres, both the logical and the creative (Torrance and Lubart, 1974). The development of creativity is very important for day to day and works with the thought creative aspects, features, among other steps will be studied below, and identifying a set of strategies to facilitate creative interpretation, the analysis or the study of problems or issues.

Creativity involves at least three conditions:

1) A new idea or response must be produced.

2) The idea or answer to solve a problem or reach a certain goal and

3) Knowledge shall be retained and developed to the fullest. Creativity runs in time rather than just a brief episode, and is characterized by originality, adaptation and implementation.

It is also considered as consisting of creative behavior for any activity in which man imposes a new order on their environment. You can assume or not the creation of a structure organized.

Creative thinking can be defined in several ways. Carson and Runco (1999) states that "you can think of creativity as the ability to form new combinations of ideas to fill a need." Incorporating the concepts of critical thinking and dialectical thinking. Torrance and Lubart, (1974) notes that "the process includes a creative dialectic between continuous integration and expansion, convergence and divergence theses.”

Maier and Hoffman (1961) highlight an important characteristic of creative thinking: Creative thinking is thinking structured in a way that tends to lead to creative results. The ultimate criterion of creativity is the result. It's called a creative person when it gets consistently creative results, meanings, and appropriate original results by the criteria of the domain in question.

Torrance and Lubart (1974) imply that to teach creativity, the product of students must be the ultimate criterion. However, no matter how divergent the thinking of different students, it gives little fruit unless it is translated into some form of action. The action can be internal (take a decision, reach a conclusion, make a hypothesis), or external (a painting, make a guess or an analogy; suggest a new way to conduct an experiment). However, creative thinking must have an outcome.

Looking For Ideas in Two Stages: Divergence and Convergence

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