Creativity and creative thinking lateral and vertical thinking. In this episode of crash course psychology, hank talks to us and tries to make meaning out of how our brains do this thing called language. Because this book is now out of print, this portable document file pdf is formatted for twosided printing to facilitate desktop publishing. This study synthesizes current information from the various fields of cognitive science in support of a new and exciting theory of mind. If you work in education, research, finance, management or the legal profession, then critical thinking is obviously important. Robert cialdini, an emeritus psychology and marketing professor at the arizona state university and a ph. Science demands and holds fast to facts, regarding theories as but working hypotheses at the best. Thinking is the systematic transformation of mental representations of knowledge to characterize actual or possible states of the world, often in service of goals.
Some one has said that theories are but the bubbles with which the grown. The psychology of thinking 65 the given or similar environments. These are preparation, incubation, illumination, evaluation, and revision. This book is about lateral thinking which is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Here well talk you through what the ability is, and give some examples of lateral thinking skills. Mark forshaw is a principal lecturer in psychology and deputy director of the centre for health psychology at staffordshire university. Two years later, after careful cultivation and creative collaboration, it has become a viable organism, with a name. We briefly discuss these five steps of creative thinking in the subsequent section. Critical thinking in psychology article pdf available in the psychological record 581 january 2009 with 2,715 reads how we measure reads. The mind is the idea while thinking processes of the brain involved in processing information such as when we form concepts, engage in problem solving, to reason and make decisions. Think psychology the chapters are briefer than a standard introductory text,allowing for a lower cost to students and using less printed paper. Vertical thinking, with its sequential and fixedorder rules, which has been the foundation of traditional education, is increasingly being complemented by lateral thinking which aims at freeing the mind.
Critical thinking is a domaingeneral thinking skill. Graham wallas, one of the leading psychologists of early twentieth century stated that there are five stages of creative thinking. He is chair of the bps qualifications standards committee and the winner of the bps division of health psychology award for outstanding contribution to the advancement of health psychology 2011. This book gives am idea on what lateral thinking is, how it alongside vertical thinking is the most deadliest tool an individual can have in solving any problem. Lateral thinking involves looking at a situation or problem from a unique or unexpected point of view. In the world of music especially when we are talking about western music there are two primary ways of thinking about, analyzing, and composing music. I am giving slideshare uses cookies to improve functionality and performance, and to provide you with relevant advertising. The process of forming patterns, using analogies, and accessing body thinking are laid out in. Record the speech and note how the child is learning words and how many words the child has learnt over this period. These lessons detail the skills needed to utilize observation, imagination, and abstracting. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. Indeed, boroditsky 2001 sees these results as suggesting that habits in language encourage habits in thought p. Tikhomirov was the initiator of the personal meanings theory of thinking, one of the leading schools of cognitive studies in russia.
Encyclopedia of educational theory and philosophy, publisher. This book is intended for use both at home and at school. Horizontal and vertical thinking part 1 vertical thinking by. Lateral thinking can be learned, practiced and used.
This introduction to psychology project began with a germ of an idea. B110 is now ready to interact with students who are beginning their foray into the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Most psychologists study horizontal processes like memory and information flow. Specifically, when given a series of tasks with vertical priming, mandarin chinese speakers were faster at recognizing temporal relationships between months. The process of forming patterns, using analogies, and accessing body thinking are laid out in ways that are easy to understand and use.
The emergence of lateral thinking in recent years is a natural reaction to the enormous increase of information a human being is bombarded with, in the post industrial revolution era. Lateral thinking deliberately distances itself from vertical or logical thinking the classic method for problem solving. Each module in this book is accompanied by instructors manual. It may be used by us government agencies to make copies for government purposes and by nongovernmental organizations to make copies for educational purposes. Lateral thinking how can lateral thinking help you. The book proposes a double circulation model of creative thinking and argues that imagery thinking, intuitive thinking and logical thinking are main parts of creative thinking and that dialectical thinking and horizontalvertical thinking are the guides for highly complex problemsolving thoughts and strategies. The word psychology is derived from two greek words psyche and logos. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. In brief, lateral thinking involves looking at problem from a different angle. Guitar songwriting horizontal and vertical thinking part. Splitting also called blackandwhite thinking or allornothing thinking is the failure in a persons thinking to bring together the dichotomy of both positive and negative qualities of the self and others into a cohesive, realistic whole. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. These separate academic strands have developed different approaches to defining critical thinking that reflect their respective concerns.
Unlike lateral thinking that involves using added intuition, risk taking, and imagination through unconscious and subconscious processes, vertical thinking. At school the emphasis has traditionally always been on vertical thinking which is effective but incomplete. Unlike other brief texts, think psychology includes 18 chapters of contentgiving instructors the flexibility to choose what they want to cover without the worry that skipping several chapters will mean. A theory of creative thinking construction and verification. Vertical thinking is a type of approach to problems that usually involves one being selective, analytical, and sequential. Because of this, psychology began to be regarded as the study of an individuals. Psychology secondary course 63 thinking and problem solving 7 thinking and problem solving have you ever thought about how you have acquired knowledge about all that you know today. The 8 units include 27 modules covering key social psych topics such as research methods, group processes, social influence, and relationships. Vertical thinking is a sequence of direct and logical steps that are used to come to a conclusion.
Vertical and lateral thinking are explained including many useful applications for both. Sternberg 1986 has also noted a third critical thinking strand within the field of education. Metathoughts for psychology is a text designed to improve ones thinking skills through the application of metathinking principles, which consist of a series of specific strategies, methods, and techniques for approaching all forms of inquiry, study and problem solving, with particular application to the field of psychology. This textbook presents core concepts common to introductory social psychology courses. David shanks, professor of psychology, university college london, uk thinking and reasoning is professor ken manktelows followup to his excellent textbook that was the mainstay of thinking and reasoning courses for over 10 years.
Clapham, in the international handbook on innovation, 2003. Robert weisberg, a cognitive psychologist, argues that there is. Psychological abstracts alobe reports over 25,000 new research studies on human behavior. If you are still not clear, here are the 6 top classic examples of exactly how lateral thinking works. It could be said that it is the opposite of lateral thinking. But critical thinking skills are not restricted to a particular subject area. This book will be a valuable source for students and researchers. Observe children of 1 year, 2 years, and 3 years old over a period of one week. Fodor postulates a vertical and modular psychological organization underlying biologically coherent behaviors. This book and its concepts should be introduced in our primary education system and kids should be taught to inculcate lateral thinking in heir day by day world. The psychology of persuasion revised edition by robert b. Some methodology behind vertical thinking involves. For the reasons devel oped at length in the first chapter, the truth or falsity of the hypothesis should be independent of whether ants, viewed more microscopically, are simple or complex sys tems.
Lateral thinking, on the other hand, is using an indirect and creative approach to come to a. This paper discusses some of the successful creative thinking techniques used by business analysts and describes a generic model which can be used to guide the process. Lateral thinking means taking a creative approach to a problem or challenge. It essentially means being able to think creatively or outside the box in order to solve a problem.
It may instantly come to your mind that your teachers have taught you about this, your parents made you learn all these things, or you read about all these in books. The ability to think clearly and rationally is important whatever we choose to do. The gre subject test in psychology is designed for aspiring graduate students who want to demonstrate mastery of core undergraduatelevel psychology concepts. Lateral thinking and technology education springerlink. Vertical thinking refers to a way of analyzing, processing, and using information in a logical, direct, or prepatterned way. Each of these approaches is explored more fully below. Thus, originally psychology was defined as the study of soul or spirit. Exploring how critical thinking can be used in psychology, this book shows students and researchers how to think critically about key topics such as experimental research, statistical inference, case studies, logical fallacies, and ethical judgments. The content and methods of educational psychology courses seem to be determined largely by the scope and sequence of educational psychology textbooks, which seem to reflect a static conception of educational psychology as a foundat ion in teacher.