AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Key Blue Hat Concepts For example, if you’re currently all supposed to be wearing the white hat and someone offers a stinging critique, the blue hat wearer suggests that they hold this criticism until it’s time for the black hat. “Focus” doesn’t mean that the meeting has to have only one goal.

Detailed explanation-2: -The red hat allows everyone in the group to express their feelings, without having to offer a rational explanation, e.g: ‘I just don’t think that idea will work. ‘ ‘I have a good feeling about doing it this way. ‘ ‘I’ve got a hunch that demand for this product is about to fall.

Detailed explanation-3: -White Hat: For example, when a green hat thinker comes up with new ideas or solutions, the white hat thinker can find the data which may support the solutions. White hat thinkers can become stronger by getting in touch with their red opposite or being willing to accept intuition and emotion into their decision-making.

Detailed explanation-4: -In de Bono’s book, black hat thinking is described as “discerning thinking-the logic applied to identifying reasons to be cautious and conservative”.