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 Translation for 'divergent thinking' from English to French
NOUN   divergent thinking | -
SYNO divergent thinking | out-of-the-box thinking
philos.
raisonnement {m} divergent
divergent thinking
Partial Matches
distant {adj} [opinions, points de vue]divergent
divergent {adj} [aussi fig.]divergent [also fig.]
songeant {adj} {pres-p}thinking
croyant {adj} {pres-p}thinking
réflexion {f}thinking
machinalement {adv} [sans réfléchir]without thinking
qui a de la présence d'esprit {adj}quick-thinking
temps {m} de réflexionthinking time
esprit {m} entrepreneurialentrepreneurial thinking
psych.
désordre {m} des idées
muddled thinking
psych.
fantasme {m}
wishful thinking
psych.
pensée {f} créative
creative thinking
sans réflexion {adv}without thinking
vœu {m} pieuxwishful thinking
pensée {f} confusemuddled thinking
pensée {f} claireclear thinking
rapidité {f} d'espritquick thinking
tournure {f} d'espritway of thinking
unverified par étourderie {adv}without thinking [carelessly]
agir sans la moindre préméditationto act without thinking
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Usage Examples English
  • Intelligence alone is not enough for the development of genius but the pathways and neural connections for divergent thinking are also necessary.
  • Teachers should be encouraging divergent thinking and allowing students the freedom to ask their own questions and to learn the effective strategies for discovering the answers.
  • In the first stage of collaborativism, students begin with divergent thinking within a group.
  • In the current economy, Creativity and the rise of the Creative Class are linked to divergent thinking and innovative solutions to current problems.
  • Building on Guilford's work, tests were developed, sometimes called "Divergent Thinking (DT)" tests have been both supported and criticized.

  • To achieve divergent thinking, it may be important to have a diverse group of people involved in the process.
  • In a study examining contributions of personality and intelligence to creativity, general knowledge was positively correlated with divergent thinking tests, but was unrelated to a biographical measure of creative achievement, self-rated creativity, or a composite measure of creativity.
  • Other research has shown that early exposure to a second language increases divergent thinking strategies, helping not only in language-related tasks, but also in areas such as math.
  • Rapid Ideation and Creative Problem Solving teaches methods of creative problem solving and ideation, including sketching, drawing, diagramming, and the underlying approaches of abductive thinking and divergent thinking.
  • In a series of research studies using the test, Frederiksen and his colleagues demonstrated that this open-ended technique was able to measure divergent thinking skills that were considerably different from the convergent ones tapped by multiple-choice versions of the test.

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