Quiz 1 Creative Thinking

informal logic

Deals with operation of thinking that are indirectly related to reasoning.Creating an assumption based on one idea that may or may not have been proven

Intelligence Quotient

I.Q.

divergent thinking

Trying to expand the range of alternatives by generating many possible solutions

deductive thinking

draw conclusion based on logical set of premises

field

group of people who are experts in the domain

domain

large areas of symbolic knowledge that are distinct and separate

Functional Fixedness

one idea and that's it. A bias in thinking that limits a person to using or thinking about an object only in the way it is traditionally used.

Experience as mediated

our perception of the world is seen through a particular lens or filter that colours our experience and ascribes meaning to it.

perception

seeing things in a different way

Generative Thinking

seeing things in a different way to create a solution to a problem.

inductive thinking

starts with something specific and moves to something more general (the conclusions reached are probable)

Lateral Thinking

the ability to look at a given situation or problem in a nontraditional way.

context

the conditions in which we see something

ideation

the creative process of generating, developing, and communicating new ideas, where an idea is understood as a basic element of thought that can be either visual, concrete, or abstract.

Change Blindness

the tendency to fail to detect changes in any part of a scene to which we are not focusing our attention.

Convergent Thinking

type of thinking in which a problem is seen as having only one answer, and all lines of thinking will eventually lead to that single answer, using previous knowledge and logic