PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Joy Paul Guilford was a United States psychologist, best remembered for his psychometric study of human intelligence, including the distinction between convergent and divergent production.
Divergent thinking is a thought process or method used to generate creative ideas by exploring many possible solutions.
Convergent thinking is the opposite of divergent thinking. It generally means the ability to give the "correct" answer to standard questions that do not require significant creativity, for instance in most tasks in school and on standardized multiple-choice tests for intelligence.
According to Guilford's Structure of Intellect (SI) theory (1955), an individual's performance on intelligence tests can be traced back to the underlying mental abilities or factors of intelligence. SI theory comprises up to 150 different intellectual abilities organized along three dimensions—Operations, Content, and Products.
