Thinking — Psychology STD 11 Humanities — Question

Creative thinking is solving the problem creatively; doing something "new". Creative thinking involves divergent and convergent thinking but more divergent thinking.
Stages:

1. Preparation: The thinker formulates the problem and collects facts and material necessary for the solution.

It is to understand the task or problem, analyse the problem and become aware of the background facts and related information.

• The person tries to look at the problem from different angles and viewpoints. Here divergent thinking abilities play important role.

2. Incubation: There may be a feeling of getting stuck. One may get disgusted with failures because not getting the solutions. Creative ideas may not occur immediately when individual is consciously thinking about the problem. The idea may occur at the time of relaxation or it may strike when the person is doing something else. e.g. at the time of just walking along or going to sleep.
3. Illumination: Like insight, a potential solution to the problem seems to be realized if from nowhere. Illumination occurs with its "aha" ! a sudden idea for solution appears into consciousness.
4. Verification: The solution found is verified or tested to see if it works. Frequently, the insight turn out to be satisfactory and may need some modification.
5. Revision: In case a satisfactory solution is not reached, a revision may be necessary.