Creativity 02

Question 1

CRITICAL THINKING

Answer 1

Improvement in thinking is unlikely to take place in the absence of a conscious commitment to learn

Question 2

STAGES OF CRITICAL THINKING DEVELOPMENT

Answer 2

Unreflective Thinker, Challenged Thinker, Beginning Thinker, Practicing Thinker, Advanced Thinker, Thinker Accomplished

Question 3

Unreflective Thinker

Answer 3

We are unaware of significant problems in our thinking

Question 4

Challenged Thinker

Answer 4

We are faced with significant problems in our thinking

Question 5

Beginning Thinker

Answer 5

We try to improve without regular practice

Question 6

Practicing Thinker

Answer 6

We regularly practice and advance accordingly

Question 7

Advanced Thinker

Answer 7

We are commited to lifelong practice and are beginning to internalize intellectual virtues

Question 8

Accomplished Thinker

Answer 8

Intellectual skills and virtues have become second nature in our lives

Question 9

UNREFLECTIVE THINKER

Answer 9

At this stage, many problems in our lives are caused by poor thinking,
but we are unaware of this.
At this stage, we unconsciously deceive ourselves in many ways.

Question 10

UNREFLECTIVE THINKER

Answer 10

We create and maintain pleasant illusions.
Because our beliefs seem reasonable to us, we believe them with confidence.
We walk about the world with confidence that things really are the way they appear to us.
We judge some people to be “good” and some to be “bad.”
We approve of some actions and disapprove of others.
Although we don’t realize it, our egocentric tendencies at this stage play a dominant role in our thinking.

Question 11

UNREFLECTIVE THINKER

Answer 11

We lack the skills and the motivation to notice
how self-centered and prejudiced we are, how often we stereotype others, how frequently we dismiss ideas irrationally simply because we don’t want to change our behavior or our comfortable way of looking at things.

Question 12

THE CHALLENGED THINKER

Answer 12

As we become aware that “normal” thinkers often think poorly, we move into the second stage of critical thinking development, the Challenged Thinker.

Question 13

THE CHALLENGED THINKER

Answer 13

We begin to notice that we often
make questionable assumptions;
use false, incomplete, or misleading information;
make inferences that do not follow from the evidence we have;
fail to recognize important implications in our thought;
fail to recognize problems we have;

Question 14

THE CHALLENGED THINKER

Answer 14

At this point in your development self-deception is a distinct danger

At this point you begin to recognize that poor thinking is dangereous, even life threatening

Question 15

THE BEGINNING THINKER

Answer 15

This is a stage of downing realizations and of developing will power. This is a stage of emerging consciousness.
BELIEVE LESS – UNDERSTAND MORE

Question 16

THE BEGINNING THINKER

Answer 16

As thinkers thinking about thinking, we are merely beginning to
• analyze the logic of situations and problems;
• express clear and precise questions;
• check information for accuracy and relevance;
• distinguish between raw information and someone’s interpretation of it;
• recognize assumptions guiding inferences;

Question 17

THE BEGINNING THINKER

Answer 17

We are beginning to appreciate the value of examining our thinking in terms of its 
clarity, 
accuracy, 
relevance, 
precision, 
logicalness, 
justifiability, 
breadth, 
depth, and 
fairness, 
but we are still at a low level of proficiency in these abilities. 
They feel awkward to us.

Question 18

THE BEGINNING THINKER

Answer 18

our values must begin to shift
explore the foundation of our thinking
discover how we have come to think and believe as we do.

Question 19

THE PRACTICING THINKER

Answer 19

commit yourselves to daily practice in thinking well.
Development of the human mind is; 
(like human body)
GOOD THEORY
GOOD PRACTICE
GOOD FEEDBACK

Question 20

Curiosity + Creativity + Critical thinking = Robust Problem Solving

Answer 20

Curiosity is at the core of creative thinking.
And it’s creative thinking combined with critical thinking that gives all of us the best chance at becoming super problem solvers

Question 21

critical thinking

Answer 21

more analytical
the part of your brain questioning and analyzing based on what it knows.
It asks straightforward questions such as, what, and why, or how

Question 22

creative thinking

Answer 22

about the brain connecting bits of information in your brain in new and interesting ways, and then asking questions such as, what if, or why not.
These bits of information– we’ll call them dots for now– are the things we’ve seen or learned over time.

Question 23

Curiosity

Answer 23

Curiosity will supply you with more bits of information (dots)
(the things we’ve seen or learned over time)

The more dots we have, the more likely it is we can come up with
Curiosity is the core of creative thinking
reative solutions

Question 24

How do you stay curious to build up your bank of dots of information?

Answer 24

always challenge what you see and hear, might both be the easiest and the hardest curiosity tip. It’s very easy to accept what you’re seeing or have seen as a way things have been or should be. But the truly curious brain always seeks more information

Question 25

potential benefits of curiosity

Answer 25

it’s a great way to keep your mind active rather than passive
it makes you open to new ideas and expands your mental horizons
it can make life, well, more interesting, even exciting

Question 26

how curiosity leads to creativity

Answer 26

When you are curious about something, your mind expects and anticipates new ideas related to it
When the ideas start flowing, the brain will recognize them for what they are, opportunities for new thinking and new ways of looking at things.
Without curiosity, the ideas may pass right in front of you and you won’t notice because you’re not mentally ready to recognize them

Question 27

two advice for curiosity

Answer 27

try to ask people.
If you can talk to someone who knows what you’re looking for and they explain it to you, it’s much more likely you remember what you’ve learned, and much more likely to make connections to other things you know.

Question 28

CREATIVITY

Answer 28

Creativity is in all of us. It just needs encouraging.
Creative thinking is a divergent type of thinking.
almost all companies believe there’s a strong connection between creativity and business success.

Question 29

divergent type of thinking.

Answer 29

It’s our brains going off in different directions.
It would do us no good as a species if we all thought alike.
It’s the same divergent thinking that ultimately improves our critical thinking.

Question 30

CREATIVITY

Answer 30

“The ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, and patterns, and to create meaningful new ideas.“

Creativity is in all of us, although it may be hidden away in some dark corner some of us have not visited in a very long time.

Question 31

Education might work against creativity

Answer 31

Our education and the need to feel like we are, “getting things right” means we’ve slowly been sucked into the world of convergent thinking– we want to be right. We want to fit in.

So we focus on the known, the understood, the “right”.

These are the very antithesis of creative thinking, the opposites of the unruly world of divergent thinking.

Question 32

DIFFERENT THINKING for CREATIVITY

Creativity in somewhat depending on…….

Answer 32

Creativity is somewhat dependent on understanding the different parts of the thinking process,

Which necessitates “different thinking”

Question 33

DIFFERENT THINKING

Answer 33

A lot of academicians explored and proposed different modes of thinking,
sometimes ; “layers of thinking

Question 34

layers of thinking

Answer 34

Divergent Thinking - Convergent Thinking
Concrete Thinking - Abstract Thinking
Thick Thinking - Thin Thinking

Question 35

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Answer 35

You shouldn’t sacrifice one mode of thinking neglecting the other,

you cannot succeed by focusing
on one at the expense of the other

Question 36

Divergent thinking

CREATING CHOICES

Answer 36

is such things as imagination, creativity, and coming up with the new and the possible.

It’s about expanding the possible number of solutions, not rejecting any idea out of hand.

It’s about being open and forcing the brain to be open to all possibilities.

Question 37

Convergent thinking

MAKING CHOICES

Answer 37

is about making judgments, evaluating, sometimes even testing, and making decisions.

It’s about rating, making sense of the various ideas, and ultimately clarifying the thinking.

Question 38

Abstract thinking

Answer 38

is thinking about an aspect of the problem in broad, abstract terms, and let your mind wander where it wants to go.

Question 39

Concrete thinking

Answer 39

is orientation to find the “the only one best solution”.

Question 40

Thick thinking

Answer 40

encourages more thoughtful questions and therefore more diverse thinking– questions such as, what if? What would happen if?

Question 41

Thin thinking

Answer 41

is essentially asking the most basic questions– who, what, where, when, why, and how.

Question 42

META THINKING

Answer 42

Metacognition is thinking about thinking
(or “management of thinking” if you like)

It literally means knowing

"what we know" 
  and 
"what we don't know.

Question 43

METACOGNITIVE STRATEGIES

Answer 43

Connecting new information to what we know,

Deliberately selecting thinking strategies

Planning and evaluating our thinking processes

Question 44

4 levels of thinking;(increasingly metacognitive)

Answer 44

Tacit
Aware
Strategic
Reflective (Leads to wisdom)

Question 45

tacit

Answer 45

This is where we do some every-day thinking without really thinking about that process.

Question 46

Aware

Answer 46

This is when we are aware that we are thinking about something in a particular way as we are doing that thinking.

Question 47

Strategic

Answer 47

This is when we consciously plan to think about a problem or situation in a specific or several specific ways.

Question 48

Reflective (Leads to wisdom)

Answer 48

This is the highest level of metacognition and is where we reflect on our thinking before or after we have done that thinking as a way to consider both how to proceed and how to improve the thinking.