4.4. Creative Thinking
Creative Thinking refers to the advanced cognitive process that employs several thinking
processes to create new things or solve existing problems. Creative thinking exists only when the
creators have freedom of thinking, or Divergence Thinking, and ability to adapt or combine the
existing thinking, which will lead to the discovery of novelties. Divergence Thinking is a kind of
creative thinking. It means the ability of an individual to solve the problems, the ways of
thinking that generate different and new things, and the ability that can be applied in different
kinds of jobs. Divergence Thinking consists of [27]:
4.4.1. Fluency
Ability to think and respond to stimuli at the best, or to find out the right but different solutions
in the same issue.
4.4.2. Flexibility
Ability to adjust the thinking and make it comply with different circumstances, focusing on the
wide ranges of fluency by means of classification and criteria.
4.4.3. Originality
Ability to think differently and uniquely, or to modify existing knowledge so as to create new
things.
4.4.4. Elaboration
Ability to see through the details that are invisible to others, and to link different things together
in a meaningful manner.