Divergent thinking is
a. conceiving of new ways of viewing situations and new uses for familiar objects.
b. maintaining an initial hypothesis despite contradictory evidence.
c. relying on previous successful strategies to solve a new problem.
d. making decisions based on how easily information comes to mind.
e. narrowing down a range of alternatives to converge on the one correct answer to a problem.
a
You might also like to view...
Abraham Lincoln suffered through periods of profound depression throughout his life. What do some historians believe his mood disorder can be traced to?
A. his poverty-stricken upbringing on the Western frontier B. his father losing his property due to faulty property titles C. the death of his mother when he was nine years old D. insomnia
The idea that women should stay home and take care of the children while men should go out and earn money for the family best describes the notion of:
a. sexism. b. racial prejudice. c. gender prejudice. d. gender stereotypes.