Thursday, August 12, 2010

Lesson 3 : Convergent and Divergent Thinking, Logical Mindmap, Stereotypes

CONVERGENT AND DIVERGENT THINKING



convergent thinking

  • One he called "convergent" thinking, in which the person is good at bringing material from a variety of sources to bear on a problem, in such a way as to produce the "correct" answer. This kind of thinking is particularly appropriate in science, maths and technology.

  • Because of the need for consistency and reliability, this is really the only form of thinking which standardised intelligence tests, (and even national exams) can test

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  • The other he termed "divergent" thinking. Here the student's skill is in broadly creative elaboration of ideas prompted by a stimulus, and is more suited to artistic pursuits and study in the humanities.

CONVERGENT THINKING

Convergent thinking is a thought that attempts to consider all information and arrive at the single best possible answer. Most of the thinking called for in schools is convergent, as schools require students to gather and remember information and make logical decisions and answers accordingly.

DIVERGENT THINKING

Divergent thinking is a thought process or method used to generate creative ideas. It is often used in conjunction with convergent thinking, which follows a particular set of logical steps to arrive at one "correct" solution.

So basically, in my opinions convergent comes after divergent thinking. Convergent thinking is when it has an accurate answer while Divergent thinking is brainstorming.



LOGICAL MIND MAP

Mind map is used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea.mind map is a graphical way to represent ideas and concepts. We normally used it to help study, organization, problem solving, decision making, and writing. There alot of method on doing mind maps. It started out with stating the main topic and arranging it by group such as their objectives our problems.


EXAMPLES OF MIND MAPS




STEREOTYPES

Stereotypes are characteristics ascribed to groups of people involving gender, race, national origin and other factors. These characteristics tend to be oversimplifications of the groups involved, however. for examples, Asians tend to look high on Caucasians. Stereotyping is also a form of prejudice that can form damaging images of people because of a particular characteristic without having any knowledge of the person such as how people tend to believe that middle eastern people are terrorists and should be feared.

Stereotypes are sometimes logical and can be true. Some people uses it to remind their kids to be a better person. Stereotypes even helps people to be aware over something. Like for example don't trust any gypsies.

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  1. Mind map is used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea.mind map is a graphical way to represent ideas and concepts. We normally used it to help study, organization, problem solving, decision making, and writing. There alot of method on doing mind maps. It started out with stating the main topic and arranging it by group such as their objectives our problems.

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