Creativity 02 Flashcards
CRITICAL THINKING
Improvement in thinking is unlikely to take place in the absence of a conscious commitment to learn
STAGES OF CRITICAL THINKING DEVELOPMENT
Unreflective Thinker, Challenged Thinker, Beginning Thinker, Practicing Thinker, Advanced Thinker, Thinker Accomplished
Unreflective Thinker
We are unaware of significant problems in our thinking
Challenged Thinker
We are faced with significant problems in our thinking
Beginning Thinker
We try to improve without regular practice
Practicing Thinker
We regularly practice and advance accordingly
Advanced Thinker
We are commited to lifelong practice and are beginning to internalize intellectual virtues
Accomplished Thinker
Intellectual skills and virtues have become second nature in our lives
UNREFLECTIVE THINKER
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.
UNREFLECTIVE THINKER
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.
UNREFLECTIVE THINKER
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.
THE CHALLENGED THINKER
As we become aware that “normal” thinkers often think poorly, we move into the second stage of critical thinking development, the Challenged Thinker.
THE CHALLENGED THINKER
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;
THE CHALLENGED THINKER
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
THE BEGINNING THINKER
This is a stage of downing realizations and of developing will power. This is a stage of emerging consciousness.
BELIEVE LESS – UNDERSTAND MORE
THE BEGINNING THINKER
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;
THE BEGINNING THINKER
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.
THE BEGINNING THINKER
our values must begin to shift
explore the foundation of our thinking
discover how we have come to think and believe as we do.
THE PRACTICING THINKER
commit yourselves to daily practice in thinking well. Development of the human mind is; (like human body) GOOD THEORY GOOD PRACTICE GOOD FEEDBACK
Curiosity + Creativity + Critical thinking = Robust Problem Solving
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
critical thinking
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
creative thinking
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.
Curiosity
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
How do you stay curious to build up your bank of dots of information?
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
