Creative Thinking
What is creativity?
Encouraging the use of hunch, intuition, insight, and fantasy.
What do you call claims supported by evidence and reasoning?
Arguments
Which requires critical thinking?
A.)Deciding if you should give calendars or comparably priced coffee mugs at the work Christmas party.
B.)If there is a problem with a seat harness on a roller coaster
B
What are four things that influence group creativity?
Diversity, discussion rules, climate, and environment
What is a downside of critical thinking?
Time consuming
Your group's next assignment requires each member to make a piece of art.
What type of thinking is required?
Creative thinking
What is the First Step in the appreciative inquiry process?
Discover
What is the most important way to enhance critical thinking in a group?
Having a good attitude
You have to do a research project to determine the best method of water conservation in the environment?
What type of thinking does this require?
Critical Thinking
In the process of synectics, what are the techniques used to connect thoughts with solutions?
Metaphors and analogies
What two things make up critical thinking?
Evidence and logical arguments
Cassie's group is working on a presentation that is due in two weeks. They have to come up with an innovative idea for how to clean up the environment. Although she is a sustainability major she is scared of someone rejecting her idea so she doesn’t say anything at all. Is Cassie helping or hurting her team? Is she promoting creativity? How can we invite creativity into our small groups?
Cassie is HURTING her team's creativity.
(Discussion Question)
What is the purpose of discarding habitual ways of thinking when trying to complete the task at hand?
To find creative ideas
Critical thinkers are _______or accepting of new information, even if it contradicts what they believed.
Open-minded
You and your group are doing a class debate on the death penalty. You have been talking about it for weeks and your group is in favor of it. While doing research for another class you come across a new study based on systematic evidence that strongly suggests that the death penalty doesn’t reduce crime. If you present this new information to the group you run the risk of pushing your emerging consensus further away.
Would it be wrong to withhold this new information?
Which skill does answering the question require critical or creative thinking?
Yes
Critical