Basic Principle Thinking
Attention
Escape
Not a Par
New Idea
Movement
Attention is your brain function that allocates cognitive processing resources to focus on information or stimuli.
Understanding Attention
As you read through a section of text in a book, the highlighted section stands out, causing you to focus your interest in that area.
Key Points About Attention
it's essential to remember a few important points about how attention works. Categories type of attention:
- Sustained attention
- Selective attention
- Alternating attention
- Divided attention
Attention Research
For the most part, our ability to focus our attention on one thing while blocking out competing distractors seems automatic.
Definition= second principle behind all creative thinking methods calls us to mentally escape our current pattern of thinking.
= In order to escape from a situation, we have to think or be different situation.
Example
= Shaving looking at the mirror to prevent us from thinking another problem.
= listening to songs while driving to divert our mind from thinking about work or other problems.
= Working out while focusing on weights to prevent from stressing on other problems.
New ideas component is stand of old elements To be creative, must be able to be different from the ordinary and the traditional Actually, new ideas are the old ones but rearranged in a new way If you don’t shortage of knowledge, you will have lesser resources to making from in forming new ideas
Example:
Lego – creating new products from community
At the beginning, Lego only create set of Legos according to places (police department, hospital, park) but now, they sell their set base on what community like such as superheroes (MCU edition, DCU edition).
This can show how their idea change.
The critical thinking skills movement presumes that value of critical thinking extends beyond its usefulness in academic. The volunteers were then asked to imagine themselves performing a complicated action whatever they likes as long as imagining it increased the height of bar.
For examples :
Four Corners
In this activity, students move to a corner of the classroom based on their responses to a question with four answer choices. Once they’ve moved, they can break into smaller groups to explain their choices. Call on students to share to the entire group. If students are persuaded to a different answer, they can switch corners and further discuss.
- Not all ideas are on a par. The ability to come up with new and useful ideas which serve important need or creates a ne w trend that makes an impact.
Creativity is divided into cognitive and artistic creativity
Cognitive creativity is a matter of coming up with solutions to practical or theoretical problems.
Artistic creativity consists in the creation of artwork and expressing one's ideas and emotions through various forms of art. Critical thinking as such is not opposed to artistic creativity, but the enhancement of critical thinking skills obviously might not improve one's artistic creativity.