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Creative Thinking

Creative thinking is characterized by a playful and open approach, involving the ability to synthesize ideas and engage in divergent thinking. The process includes stages of preparation, incubation, illumination, and verification, with strategies like brainstorming to enhance fluency and flexibility of ideas. Key attributes of creative thinking include appropriateness, originality, and elaboration, distinguishing it from mere non-conformity or fantasy.

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Creative Thinking

Creative thinking is characterized by a playful and open approach, involving the ability to synthesize ideas and engage in divergent thinking. The process includes stages of preparation, incubation, illumination, and verification, with strategies like brainstorming to enhance fluency and flexibility of ideas. Key attributes of creative thinking include appropriateness, originality, and elaboration, distinguishing it from mere non-conformity or fantasy.

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CREATIVE THINKING

BY
MAHAALAKSHMI
XI - B
NATURE AND PROCESS OF
CREATIVE THINKING :

● Creative thinking abilities make use of completely


different methods when compared with critical thinking
abilities.
● They involve a much more peaceful, open,playful
approach.
● Creative thinking is actually both the capacity to blend
or synthesize to present suggestions, images, or
experience in unique ways and the expertise of
thinking, responding and dealing in a creative way
characterized by a higher level of development, risk
taking and divergent thinking.
NATURE OF CREATIVE
THINKING :
● Another important criterion that characterizes creative
thinking is its appropriateness in a particular context.
● Simply thinking of being different without any purpose,
doing things in one’s own ways, being non-conformist,
indulging in fantasy without any purpose or coming
out with a bizarre idea, is at times mistaken for
creative thinking.
● Researchers tend to agree that thinking is said to be
creative when it is reality-oriented,appropriate,
constructive, and socially desirable.
● J.P. Guilford, a pioneer in creativity research.
Proposed Two Types Of Thinking
● Divergent thinking abilities generally include fluency,
flexibility, originality, and elaboration.
Fluency :
Is the ability to produce many ideas for a given task or
a problem. The more ideas a person produces, the
higher his fluency ability.
For example, more the number of uses of a paper
cup, more would be the fluency.
Flexibility :
Indicates variety in thinking. It may be thinking of
different uses of an object, or different interpretation of
a picture, story or different ways of solving a problem.
For example, In case of use of a paper cup, one may
give an idea to use it as a container or to draw a
circle, etc.
Originality :
Is the ability to produce ideas that are rare or unusual
by seeing new relationships, combining old ideas with
new ones,looking at things from different perspectives
etc. Research has shown that fluency and flexibility
are the necessary conditions for originality. The more
and varied ideas one produces, the greater the
likelihood of original ideas.
Elaboration :
Is the ability that enables a person to go into details
and work out the implications of new ideas.
PROCESS OF CREATIVE
THINKING :

Preparation :
● The process of creative thinking begins with the
preparation stage that requires one to understand the
task or problem in hand, analyze the problem, and
become aware of the background facts and related
information.
● The process evokes curiosity and excitement to think
more and more in different directions.
Incubation :
● when the person is trying to generate alternative
ideas and trying to view the problem or task from an
unusual perspective, there may be a feeling of
getting stuck.
● One may even get disgusted with failure and may
leave the problem or the task for sometime. This is
the stage of incubation.

Illumination :
● Followed by incubation is the stage of illumination the
‘Aha’! or ‘I have found it’ experience, the moment we
normally associate with the emergence of creative
ideas.
● There usually is a feeling of excitement, even
satisfaction, of having found a creative idea.

Verification :
● Last is the stage of verificationwhen the worth or
appropriateness of ideas orsolutions are tested and
judged.
● Here, convergent thinking plays its role in selecting
the appropriate idea or solution that works.
STRATEGIES FOR CREATIVE
THINKING :

● Research on characteristics of creative people has


revealed that there are certain attitudes,dispositions,
and skills which facilitate creative thinking. Here are
some strategies to help you enhance your creative
thinking abilities and skills:
Brainstorming :

● Osborn’s Brainstorming technique can be used to


increase fluency and flexibility of ideas to open-ended
situations.
● Brainstorming is based on the principle that producing
ideas should be kept separate from the evaluation of
their worth.
● The basic assumption is to let the minds think freely
and the tendency to put judgment on the worth of
ideas may be postponed, i.e. imagination should be
given priority over judgment till all the ideas are
exhausted.
● This helps in increasing the fluency of ideas and piling
up alternatives.
● Brainstorming can be practised by playing
brainstorming games with family members and friends
keeping its principles in mind.
● Use of checklists and questions often provide a new
twist for ideas.

THANK YOU

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