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Creative Problem Solving
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soft-skills
Instructions:
Answer 19 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Control - evaluating results
last stage of creative problem solving
analysis
aspects of critical thinking
argument
2. Analyzing the environment - monitor internal and external environments constantly - look for signgs of problems or opportunities - gather lots of information
first stage of creative problem solving
divergent thinking
procedures for applying criteria
criteria
3. Generally it is defined as an example - pattern or metal map - a way of thinking - percieving or approaching work in some contex
problem
S.A.R.A
argument
paradigm
4. A Statement or Proposition with Supporting Evidence. Critical thinking involves Identify - Evaluating - and Contructing Arguments.
argument
reasoning
scanning
criteria
5. We locate problem at the 'center' of our focus and then gather peripheral resources to bear down on the problem
paradigm
fishbone diagram
convergent thinking
S.A.R.A
6. Ability to Infer a Conclusion from one or multiple premises. To do so requires examining logical relationships among statements or data.
first stage of creative problem solving
convergent thinking
argument
reasoning
7. Conditions that must be met for something to be judged as believeable. Must be applied to think critically.
divergent thinking
criteria
stages of creative problem solving process
point of view
8. Dispositions - criteria - argument - reasoning - point of view - proceddures for applying criteria
problem
right brain
analysis
aspects of critical thinking
9. Used in law enforcement - Scanning - Analysis - Response - Assesment
problem
S.A.R.A
last stage of creative problem solving
fishbone diagram
10. Asking questions - making judgements - identifying sssumptions
point of view
reasoning
procedures for applying criteria
aspects of critical thinking
11. Logical - sequential - rational - analytical - objective - looks at parts
stages of creative problem solving process
procedures for applying criteria
left brain
scanning
12. Identifies the problem and what causes it start by drawing a line and shorterlines will shoot from it as you think up the issues - some also call it an 'Issue tree'
fishbone diagram
left brain
paradigm
S.A.R.A
13. Way one VIews the world - which shapes one's construction of meaning. In a Search for Understanding - critical thinkers wiew Phenomena from many points of view.
point of view
convergent thinking
aspects of critical thinking
paradigm
14. Random - intuitive - holistic - synthesizing - subjective - looks at wholes
convergent thinking
aspects of critical thinking
criteria
right brain
15. Involves self and topic analysis. ask questions to narrow down a broad topic into more specific one.
analysis
divergent thinking
problem
last stage of creative problem solving
16. The Identification of a cluster of Similar - related or reoccuring incidents through a Preliminary review of information - and the selection of this Crime/Disorder problem - among competing priorities - for future examination.
scanning
point of view
stages of creative problem solving process
problem
17. Analyse the environment - recognize the problem - identify the problem - make assumptions - generate alternatives - choose among alternatives - implementation - control
last stage of creative problem solving
stages of creative problem solving process
right brain
S.A.R.A
18. The use of Several Sources of information to determine why a problem is occurring - who is responsible - who is affected - where the problem is located - when it occurs and what form the problem takes. Analysis requires identifying patterns that expl
convergent thinking
S.A.R.A
problem
analysis
19. A ______ exists when people recognize they failed to meet an objective or believe they will fail
point of view
left brain
problem
criteria