Terms in Thinking

• Thinking• Symbol• Autistic Thinking (private and personal)• Directed Thinking (solving problems, creating

new ideas) • Concept• Creative Thinking (new and useful ideas)• Divergent Thinking

Characteristics of Creative Thinkers

• Independent

• Emotionally Expressive

• Likes Complex People and Stimuli

• Complex Personalities

• Sense of Humor

Insight Learning

• Suddenness of Solution

• Application to Other Situations

Strategies for Solving Problems

• Decomposition

• Working Backwards

• Finding Analogies

• Proposing Hypotheses

• Incubation

• Visualizing or Drawing

Fixedness (being unable to think in unusual or unconventional

ways)

Learning Theory of Language

• Imitation (modeling)

• Reward (reinforcement)

• Doesn’t Account for Creativity

• Pretty Good in Explaining Semantics

• Not So Good in Explaning Syntax

Noam Chomsky

• Language Acquisition Device

• Notices Consistencies

• Explains Creativity

• Pretty Good in Explaining Syntax

• Not So Good in Explaining Semantics

Vocal Development

• Crying (hunger, anger, pain, frustration)

• Cooing

• Babbling

• One Word Sentences

• Telegraphic, Two Word Sentences (concentrates on nouns, pronouns, verbs)

• Six Years Old