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Launching the Imagination
Mary Stewart

Concepts and Critical Thinking
Cultivating Creativity

Chapter 4: Cultivating Creativity Internet Exercises

Creative thinking can be triggered by using a variety of techniques. Use the Creative Thinking and Lateral Thinking Techniques site (http://www.brainstorming.co.uk/tutorials/creativethinkingcontents.html) to answer the following questions:

a) List 5 different methods that can help you generate creative ideas. What are the strengths of these ideas and what are the shortcomings?

b) Find 3 creative thinking techniques that describe methods that you have tried before. Briefly discuss how the method works and what sort of results you had when you tried it.