Differentiate between following:
(a) Congergent and Divergent Thinking
(b) Inductive and deductive Reasoning
(a) Congergent and Divergent Thinking:
Convergent Thinking |
Diuergent Thinking |
1. Convergent thinking has one correct answer. |
1. Divergent thinking has many answers. |
2. It does not include fluency, flexibility, and originality. |
2. It includes fluency, flexibility and originality. |
3. It does not helps in organisation of ideas. |
3. It leads to organisation of new ideas. |
(b) Inductive and deductive Reasoning:
Inductive Reasoning |
Deductive Reasoning |
1. This is based on specific facts and observation. |
1. It begins with making general assumption. |
2. In this reasoning people analyse other possible reasons and observe what the man is actually doing and them draw a conclusion. |
2. In this reasoning people make such mistakes in the sense that they assume but do not always know if the basic assumption is true. |
Make a table showing mental operations involved in solving a problem.
Thinking is the base of:
all activities
all cognitive activities
all convergent activities
all convergent activities
Describe the three characteristics of language.
Write theories of following psychologists?
(a) Jean Piaget
(b) J.P. Guilford.
(c) Osborn’s brainstorming technique