PSY 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Creativity, Metacognition, Psy
4 Aug 2020
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Critical thinking involves thinking reflectively and productively, as well as evaluating evidence. Most schools, rather than expand upon a child"s critical thinking, will lead them down a path requiring extensive repetition and very little analytical thought or expansion of the mind. Mindfulness, or children"s capability to remain alert, mentally present, and cognitively flexible while going through their daily life"s tasks, is an important aspect of critical thinking. Creative thinking is the ability for the mind to think in novel and unusual ways to come up with unique solutions to problems. Convergent thinking only emphasizes the finding of one correct answer and is the. Divergent thinking produces many answers to a single question and demonstrates a main thought branch involved in standard examinations. degree of creativity amongst children"s minds. Creative thinking is believed to be on the decline in current us academic culture, in favor of a convergent thinking model.
