Modes Of Thinking: Divergent & Convergent
Divergent Thinking
Divergent thinking is a thought process or method used to generate creative ideas by exploring many possible solutions. It typically occurs in a spontaneous, free-flowing, "non-linear" manner, such that many ideas are generated in an emergent cognitive fashion.
Described below are eight elements of divergent thinking:
1. Complexity – The capacity to conceptualize difficult, multifaceted, many-layered or intricate products or ideas;
2. Curiosity – The personality characteristic of displaying probing behaviors, searching, asking questions, learning to get more knowledge/information about something, and of being able to go deeper into ideas;
3. Elaboration – The skill of adding to, building off of or embellishing a product or an idea;
4. Flexibility – The capability of creating varied perceptions or categories wherefrom comes a range of different ideas pertaining to the same thing or problem;
5. Fluency – The skill of engendering many ideas so as to have an increase in the number of potential solutions or associated products;
6. Imagination – The capability of dreaming up, inventing, or to think, to see, to conceptualize novel products or ideas, to be original;
7. Originality – The skill of coming up with fresh, unusual, unique, extremely different or completely new products or ideas;
8. Risk-taking – The readiness to be courageous, daring, adventuresome – take risks or experiment with new things so as to stand apart.
Convergent Thinking
It generally means the ability to give the "correct" answer to standard questions that do not require significant creativity, for instance in most tasks in school and on standardized multiple-choice tests for intelligence.
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