Stages of Creative thinking

Stages of Creative thinking

Wallas (1926) has emphasized there are four stages to creative thinking.

Preperation

·        This stage consists of purposeful study and enquiry in order to collect experience and information needed to solve problem.

·        The plan of action is formulated by means of collecting and analyzing the information

 Incubation

·        This stage is an absence of creative thinking about the problem,

·        There is a period of rest when there is no obvious activity and progress.

·        It seeks uncover new relationship among familiar facts

Illumination

·        Sudden idea occur through insight and it provide better solution to the problem.

·        Thinker gets a insightful solution

Verification

·        Illumination is tried out.

·        Verify idea or solution, whether it is correct or not.

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