Thinking that produces a variety of fresh, diverse possibilities. Compare convergent thinking.
the cognitive process by which an individual freely considers a variety of potential solutions to artistic, literary, scientific, or practical problems. 321
a patient with aphasia is required to produce several creative responses to every stimulus. For example, the patient might be asked to think of several unusual ways to make use of an everyday object.
A thought process through which an individual pursues self-initiated exploration of ideas and concepts that fan out from a starting focus.
thinking that moves away in diverging directions so as to involve a variety of aspects and which sometimes lead to novel ideas and solutions; associated with creativity
Another element of J. P. Guilford's research model for the structure of intelligence. Your gifted child is doing divergent thinking when he/she comes up with new and unique ideas about things. The ideas may not always be practical. In many ways, divergent thinking is the opposite of convergent thinking.
Thinking which results in novel, unique, or creative solutions or answers.
coming up with many solutions or ideas about something.
Divergent thinking is characterized by the production of as many ideas as possible, avoiding repetition or convergence.
generation of unique ideas; the ability to relate one's knowledge to new ways of addressing problems of situations
Unique and creative thinking to find solutions.
Thinking in unique and creative ways to find solutions.
Technique performed early in the initial phase of idea generation which expands thinking processes to record and recall a high volume of new or interesting ideas.
