Lateral thinking and technology education springerlink. 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. Lateral thinking deliberately distances itself from vertical or logical thinking the classic method for problem solving. Lateral thinking means taking a creative approach to a problem or challenge.
Observe children of 1 year, 2 years, and 3 years old over a period of one week. The psychology of persuasion revised edition by robert b. B110 is now ready to interact with students who are beginning their foray into the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. 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. Lateral thinking can be learned, practiced and used. Lateral thinking how can lateral thinking help you. Mark forshaw is a principal lecturer in psychology and deputy director of the centre for health psychology at staffordshire university.
Fodor postulates a vertical and modular psychological organization underlying biologically coherent behaviors. But critical thinking skills are not restricted to a particular subject area. It could be said that it is the opposite of lateral thinking. Science demands and holds fast to facts, regarding theories as but working hypotheses at the best.
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. It essentially means being able to think creatively or outside the box in order to solve a problem. Record the speech and note how the child is learning words and how many words the child has learnt over this period. A theory of creative thinking construction and verification. This textbook presents core concepts common to introductory social psychology courses. Thus, originally psychology was defined as the study of soul or spirit. It may be used by us government agencies to make copies for government purposes and by nongovernmental organizations to make copies for educational purposes. 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. Vertical thinking refers to a way of analyzing, processing, and using information in a logical, direct, or prepatterned way. If you are still not clear, here are the 6 top classic examples of exactly how lateral thinking works. Chapter 8 thinking describe the nature of thinking and reasoning, demonstrate an understanding of some cognitive processes involved in problem solving and decisionmaking, understand the nat ure and process of creative thinking and learn ways of enhancing it, understand the relationship between language and thought, and.
Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. Psychological abstracts alobe reports over 25,000 new research studies on human behavior. Graham wallas, one of the leading psychologists of early twentieth century stated that there are five stages of creative thinking. Guitar songwriting horizontal and vertical thinking part. The ability to think clearly and rationally is important whatever we choose to do. The process of forming patterns, using analogies, and accessing body thinking are laid out in ways that are easy to understand and use. This book is about lateral thinking which is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Each module in this book is accompanied by instructors manual. 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. 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. Some methodology behind vertical thinking involves. 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.
The gre subject test in psychology is designed for aspiring graduate students who want to demonstrate mastery of core undergraduatelevel psychology concepts. I am giving slideshare uses cookies to improve functionality and performance, and to provide you with relevant advertising. In brief, lateral thinking involves looking at problem from a different angle. This study synthesizes current information from the various fields of cognitive science in support of a new and exciting theory of mind. Robert weisberg, a cognitive psychologist, argues that there is. These separate academic strands have developed different approaches to defining critical thinking that reflect their respective concerns. 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. 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. Think psychology the chapters are briefer than a standard introductory text,allowing for a lower cost to students and using less printed paper.
The word psychology is derived from two greek words psyche and logos. 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. Critical thinking in psychology article pdf available in the psychological record 581 january 2009 with 2,715 reads how we measure reads. Specifically, when given a series of tasks with vertical priming, mandarin chinese speakers were faster at recognizing temporal relationships between months.
Because of this, psychology began to be regarded as the study of an individuals. Robert cialdini, an emeritus psychology and marketing professor at the arizona state university and a ph. The psychology of thinking 65 the given or similar environments. Each of these approaches is explored more fully below. This introduction to psychology project began with a germ of an idea. Lateral thinking, on the other hand, is using an indirect and creative approach to come to a. Creativity and creative thinking lateral and vertical thinking. These are preparation, incubation, illumination, evaluation, and revision. Two years later, after careful cultivation and creative collaboration, it has become a viable organism, with a name. These lessons detail the skills needed to utilize observation, imagination, and abstracting. 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. Because this book is now out of print, this portable document file pdf is formatted for twosided printing to facilitate desktop publishing. Horizontal and vertical thinking part 1 vertical thinking by.
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. Indeed, boroditsky 2001 sees these results as suggesting that habits in language encourage habits in thought p. Vertical thinking is a sequence of direct and logical steps that are used to come to a conclusion. Encyclopedia of educational theory and philosophy, publisher. Unlike lateral thinking that involves using added intuition, risk taking, and imagination through unconscious and subconscious processes, vertical thinking.
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. Some one has said that theories are but the bubbles with which the grown. At school the emphasis has traditionally always been on vertical thinking which is effective but incomplete. We briefly discuss these five steps of creative thinking in the subsequent section. 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 the world of music especially when we are talking about western music there are two primary ways of thinking about, analyzing, and composing music. Critical thinking is a domaingeneral thinking skill. 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. The process of forming patterns, using analogies, and accessing body thinking are laid out in. If you work in education, research, finance, management or the legal profession, then critical thinking is obviously important. 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. Vertical and lateral thinking are explained including many useful applications for both. Most psychologists study horizontal processes like memory and information flow. 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. Thinking is the systematic transformation of mental representations of knowledge to characterize actual or possible states of the world, often in service of goals.
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. The 8 units include 27 modules covering key social psych topics such as research methods, group processes, social influence, and relationships. This book is intended for use both at home and at school. Here well talk you through what the ability is, and give some examples of lateral thinking skills. Lateral thinking involves looking at a situation or problem from a unique or unexpected point of view. Clapham, in the international handbook on innovation, 2003. 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. 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. Sternberg 1986 has also noted a third critical thinking strand within the field of education. Tikhomirov was the initiator of the personal meanings theory of thinking, one of the leading schools of cognitive studies in russia. Vertical thinking is a type of approach to problems that usually involves one being selective, analytical, and sequential.