After I sent out my email last night I received some feedback from Steve Jones from the City of Medicine Academy about the whole divergent/convergent distinction and I think he's got it more right than I do about these scenes from Apollo 13.
The "make this out of that" scene (called, "Apollo 13 (7/11) Movie CLIP - Square Peg in a Round Hole": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2YZnTL596Q) is actually a better example of two things. First : the need to break one's functional fixedness about exactly what an object is and what an object could be (also nicely stated in this clip from Apollo 13 called "Apollo 13 - Brainstorming": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tS9aZhB9cs) and second, instead of divergent thinking, this is a better example of convergent thinking because the ultimate goal here was to create a piece of equipment that would serve a specific purpose (not to think of as many uses as possible for an object). I'll submit instead these examples showing divergent thinking: in this case there was no particular goal in mind - just for graphic designers to imagine an imagine in a very different (and often humorous) way: http://storify.com/mbritt/examples-of-divergent-thinking Hope I'm right on all this. Feedback welcome. Michael Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. [email protected] http://www.ThePsychFiles.com Twitter: mbritt --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=15203 or send a blank email to leave-15203-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
