Handbook of Creative Problem Solving Techniques

A student manual to give secondary students the basic vocabulary and techniques of creative problem solving. Includes examples, exercises, and activities. Dr. Ellis' system opens up new worlds for your students. The presentation is short, compact, and easy to master. The students are challenged to understand problems as Information Deficient, Idea Deficient, or Solution Deficient. Dr. Ellis leads them through a variety of Creative Problem Solving Procedures: Attributes-Brainstorming; Categorizing-Brainstorming; Analogies- Brainstorming; Future Projection; Interest Identification; Imposing Constraints; and Empirical Testing. Students are helped to understand the incubation and solutions-testing stages. Includes highly visual problem-solving trees and excellent examples.