CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

COGNITION AND EMOTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
By counting the number of time that you show fluency, flexibility, and originality, we could rate your creativity, or your capacity for ____ thinking.
A
inductive
B
deductive
C
convergent
D
divergent
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -An individual who has high Fluency in creative thinking has the ability to think of many diverse ideas quickly. While Flexibility is about diverse categories of ideas, Fluency is about creating ideas in a specific category. Elaboration-Elaboration is the ability to expand on an idea and embellish it with details.

Detailed explanation-2: -Detailed Solution Divergent thinking is important in the creative thinking process. Guilford (1986) considered creative thinking as involving divergent thinking, which consists of four elements such as fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration.

Detailed explanation-3: -A defining feature of creativity is flexibility of thought, the ability to create and use new mental categories and concepts to reorganize our experiences (1, 2). Flexibility in creativity has been related to originality of ideas and the ability to break apart from mental fixations (3).

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