Divergent Thinking The ability to come up with original and unique ideas and to envision multiple solutions to a problem. The concept of divergent thinking was developed in the 1950s by psychologist J. P. Guilford, who saw it as a major component of...

Convergent and divergent production are the two types of human response to a set problem that were identified by J. P. Guilford. Convergent production is the deductive generation of the best single answer to a set problem, usually where there is a...