(1) 2.1 Thinking & Creativity

  • Cognition

    • Thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating

  • Metacognition

    • Thinking about our thinking

  • Concept

    • A mental grouping of similar things

  • Prototype

    • A mental image or best example of a category

  • Assimilation

    • Interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas

  • Acommodation

    • Adapting our current understandings to incorporate new information

  • Creativity

    • The ability to produce novel and valuable ideas

  • Convergent Thinking

    • Narrows the available options to determine the single best solution

      • 1 answer

  • DIvergent Thinking

    • Expands the number of possible problem solutions

      • Multiple answers