Describe what distinguishes creative thinking from more routine problem-solving; define the creative processes of fluency, flexibility, and originality; differentiate between convergent and divergent thinking; identify three ways that creativity can be measured; and explain why creativity involves more than just the production of original answers

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Answer will include that problem-solving is usually a consciously reflective processing activity; creativity is more likely to involve apparently unconscious experiential processing. Creative thinking also involves fluency, flexibility, and originality. Fluency is defined as your total number of suggestions. Flexibility is the number of times you shift from one class of possible uses to another. Originality refers to how novel or unusual your ideas are. By counting the number of times you showed fluency, flexibility, and originality, we could rate your creativity, or capacity for divergent thinking. In routine problem solving or thinking, there is one correct answer, and the problem is to find it. This leads to convergent thinking

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