Difference between Creative Thinking and Critical Thinking

 Difference between Creative Thinking

And   Critical Thinking 

Difference between Creative Thinking and                               Critical Thinking 

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         Creative thinking and critical thinking are entirely two different processes. Let us see the difference. 

    1. Creative Thinking 

                                       

   Creative thinking refers to developing new ideas or solutions, or recombining already existing things into something different. It is complex thinking that produces new and original ideas. Creative thinking revolves around four attributes. i. Fluency: the ability to generate many ideas. For example, asking the students to brainstorm about what they know about world hunger.

    ii. 

  Flexibility: the ability to generate many different ideas. For example relating world hunger with medical aspects, economic aspects, political aspects, social aspects and religious aspects.etc.

     III. 

Originality: the ability to generate unique ideas that don't exist already

        iv. Elaboration: the ability to generate many details, seeing the idea from different angles.

2. Critical Thinking 

   Critical thinking applies to judgment processes to already existing ideas. The goal is to make evaluative judgments about ideas. Critical thinking can be as simple as to decide about whether to go to baseball game, whether a concert will be too expensive, or whether to sale the old car.

  Critical thinking depends on analysis and evaluation process. It involves inductive thinking skills such as recognizing relationships, analyzing open-ended problems, determining cause and effect relationship, making inferences and extrapolating relevant data. It also involves deductive thinking skills such as spatial problems, using logic, constructing syllogisms and distinguishing fact from opinion. Other critical thinking skills include detecting bias, evaluating, and comparing and contrasting.

  3. Problem Solving

    No doubt, the ultimate purpose of teaching students is to solve problems such as mathematical problems, physical problems, social problems, economic problems, health problems and adjustment problems. A problem is any situation in which you try to reach some goal and must find a way to do this. Problem solving refers to creating new solutions for existing problems. It means formulating new answers, going beyond the simple application of previous learned rules to create a solution. Problem solving is what happens when routines 

automatic actions do not fit the current situation. In short, problem solving is the ability to utilize complex thinking to solve real problems.

 

         The steps may include the following.

 i. Identifying the problem

 ii. Analyzing the problem

 iii. Formulating a hypothesis

 iv. Formulating appropriate questions to be answered 

V. Generated ideas

 vi. Developing alternative solutions

 vii. Determining the best solution

 viii. Applying the solution

 ix. Monitoring and evaluating the solution 

Χ. Drawing conclusions

          It is interesting to note that some psychologists believe that effective problem solving strategies are specific to each problem area. That is, the problem solving strategies in mathematics are unique to math, the strategies in art are unique to art and so on. Becoming an expert problem solver in an area requires that you master the strategies of that area. Other psychologists claim that there are some general problem-solving strategies that are applicable in different areas.

             There is evidence for both sides of claims. In fact, people move between general and specific approaches, depending on the situation and their level of expertise. In the start, when we know little about a problem area or domain, we may rely on general problem solving strategies to make sense of the situation. As we gain more domain- specific knowledge (particularly procedural knowledge about how to do things in the domain), we need the general strategies less and less. But if we encounter a problem outside our current knowledge, we may return to relying on general strategies to attack the problem.

           Following tasks come before when we explore possible solution strategies. 

         i. Schema - Driven Problem Solving 

                         It refers to recognizing a problem as a "disguided" version of an old problem for which one already has a solution.

       ii. Algorithm

             It refers to step-by-step procedure for solving a problem. It is usually domain-specific, tied to a particular subject area.     

     iii. Heuristic

             It refers to general strategies used in attempting to solve problems.

     iv. Mean-Ends Analysis 

             It refers to heuristic strategy in which goal is divided into sub- goals.

      v. Working-backward Strategy It refers to heuristic strategy in which one starts with the goal and moves backward to solve the problem. 

vi. Analogical Thinking

              It refers to heuristic strategy in which one limits the search for solutions to situations that are similar to the one at hand.

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