Question
Why is divergent thinking important in creative thinking process?
Solution
Divergent thinking: Thinking that meets the criteria of originality, flexibility and inventiveness. It is called as thinking in different directions.
Divergent thinking has following ideas of creativity:
(i) Fluency: It produces many ideas for a given task or problem. The more ideas a person produces higher his fluency ability.
(ii) Flexibility: It produces variety in thinking.
(iii) Originality: It produces ideas that are new and unusual.
