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absel-2186	Friend, Kenneth E.	Microcomputer Demonstration Exercises for a Course on Creativity and Problem Solving	1985	5	.pdf	application/pdf	3612	127	49	MICROCOMPUTER DEMONSTRATION EXERCISES FOR A COURSE ON CREATIVITY AND PROBLEM SOLVING Developments in Business Simulation & Experiential Exercises, Volume 12, 1985 135 MICROCOMPUTER DEMONSTRATION EXERCISES FOR A COURSE ON CREATIVITY AND PROBLEM SOLVING Kenneth E. Friend, Clarkson University ABSTRACT In the context of an applied psychology course on thinking” designed for management and engineering students, four programs for personal computers on campus nave been developed that (I) present various types of puzzles and problems discussed in the course, (2) display the changing elements of the problem 35 the student works on it, and (3) collect various types of behavioral data on the student’s problem solving activity, these puzzles and problems *11 involve convergent thinking (focused deduction or induction) and two 3 is to require creativity (or “divergent” thinking) in the sense of requiring flexibility of approach or method in order to achieve an efficient solution. Looking at the times off the earlier problems (by the criteria of time on problem 5 and of a person’s best time on problems 3 through 5), the bottom part of Table 2 shows that the flexible and inflexible problem solvers were virtually identical: flexible problem solvers were neither speedier on problems that did not permit flexibility nor were they slower and more reflective -- they were simply more open to a new pattern on problem 6.	cache/absel-2186.pdf	txt/absel-2186.txt