Ch. 14 Flashcards
Explores extreme values of variables.
Boundary stretching
Has one think about the problem form another person’s point of view.
Change perspective
Alternative generation is often associated with what?
Creativity or imagination
Ask subjects to perform a task that require creative thinking.
Performance tests
Employs similarity-driven searches of memory.
Analogy
They are good or meritorious according to certain criteria, which vary from one field of practice to another.
Value
Analytical devices that deal with parts of the problem.
Task-focused strategies
One conceives of states in which reality constraints don’t apply.
Fantasy
Modifies and improves previously generated ideas.
Development strategies
Viewing the problem in more fundamental terms.
Abstraction
Rely on directed retrieval of information from memory.
Search strategies
Combines alternatives into better solutions.
Integration
Exploits the mind’s ability to move from one idea to another.
Association
They are new, different, or unique.
Originality
Used group ideation methods, these devices rely on interpersonal interaction.
Interpersonal strategies
One tries to identify relationships between two or more things that have important implications for the problem.
Relationship-seeking strategies
Ask subjects to describe themselves in terms of characteristics often associated with creative people.
Self-assessment tests
Require one to imagine elaborate unrealistic states or scenarios.
Imagination-based strategies
Requires people to imaginatively become a non-human part of the problem.
Identification
Demonstrate the value of focused, convergent thinking.
Analytical strategies
Alters the structure of a situation by rearranging its parts.
Rearrangement
Is typified by brainstorming methods.
Group interaction
has people ideate by themselves, before sharing the results in order to reduce inhibitions, distractions, and channeling efforts of other people’s ideas.
Nominal group strategy
Often thought of as a free-flying, divergent, associative process that shouldn’t be constrained by mundane realities.
Alternative Generation
