1. CREATIVE AND CRITICAL THINKING IN THE SMALL GROUP Chapter 7

2. What is Creative Thinking? Begins with imaginations, intuition, and creativity

3. What is Creative Thinking? Four Factors Crucial To Creative Thinking: 1. Support 2. Tolerance 3. Teamwork 4. Deadline

4. What is Creative Thinking? Types Of Thinking Involved: 1. Divergent 2. Convergent

5. What is Creative Thinking? Four Crucial Characteristics Of The Group: 1. Diversity 2. Structure 3. Overall Climate 4. Environment

6. Enhancing Group Activity Brainstorming Preview Problem Ideas Evaluation

7. Enhancing Group Activity Brainstorming Brainwriting Electronic Brainstorming

8. Enhancing Group Activity Metaphors + Analogies = Synectics Techniques: - Perspective - Comparison - Imagination

9. Enhancing Group Activity Mind-Mapping Group Leader Group Members Ideas

10. What Makes Thinking Critical? What is the difference between critical and creative thinking? Evidence Logic

11. What Makes Thinking Critical? How Are Creative and Critical thinking Related ? “Creative thinking is essential to productivity and effective problem- solving", while “critical thinking involves careful and systematic examination of the information used by the group.”

12. Enhancing Critical Thinking In A Group Have The Right Attitude * Wanting to do things right * Prove – It

13. Enhancing Critical Thinking In A Group Gathering Information  Assessment  Sources

14. Enhancing Critical Thinking In A Group Evaluate The Gathered Information 1.Meaning 2.Fact, opinion, or inference 3.Ambiguous terms and phrases

15. Enhancing Critical Thinking In A Group Check For Errors In Reasoning Fallacies – Fallacies tend to sidetrack the argument or discussion, taking the audiences attention from the original and /or main issue Watch For: -Overgeneralization - Off-topic attacks -Correlation = Causality -Either-or -Inaccurate comparisons

16. Groupthink “…commonly refers to bad decision- making due to poor information processing in groups.”

17. Groupthink Symptoms Of Groupthink  Overconfidence  Close-mindedness  Pressure to conform

18. Groupthink Preventing Groupthink Search out opinions Welcome opposition Discourage influence from leaders Prevent insulation

19. Group Activity “The early bird may get the worm/ but the second mouse gets the cheese.”

20. It’s Quiz Time!