Scientific Thinking Quiz

What are the types of Scientific Thinking?

• Critical and Strategic

• Creative and Critical

• Strategic and Creative

• Analytical and Logical

Describe Creative/Divergent Thinking with examples.

• Comparing and contrasting options

• Monitoring, evaluating, and revising own thinking

• Analyzing components and relationships in a system

• Generating many possible options

Describe Critical/Convergent Thinking with examples.

• Analyzing components and relationships in a system

• Monitoring, evaluating, and revising own thinking

• Generating many possible options

• Comparing and contrasting options

What are blocks to creativity?

• Fear of criticism

• Fear of failure

• Fear of success

• Fear of change

How to increase creativity?

• Avoid hobbies

• Learn through curiosity

• Avoid asking for advice

• Avoid learning new things

What are Creative thinking skills?

• Judging ideas early in the process

• Treating all ideas as potentially useful

• Being afraid to make mistakes

• Not learning from what did not work

What is the definition of Lateral/Metacognitive thinking?

• Generating originality in possible options

• Monitoring, evaluating, and revising own thinking

• Comparing and contrasting options

• Analyzing components and relationships in a system

According to Edward de Bono, what is the biggest bar to new ideas?

• Lack of creativity

• The need to be right all the time

• Fear of criticism

• Fear of failure

What is the main focus of Strategic Thinking?

• Emotional intelligence

• Individual success

• Analysis of critical factors for long-term success

• Short-term success

What is the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, and problem-solving collectively known as?

• Intelligence

• Creativity

• Emotional knowledge

• Critical thinking