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convergent thinking

convergent thinking

critical thinking in which an individual uses linear, logical steps to analyze a number of already formulated solutions to a problem to determine the correct one or the one that is most likely to be successful. Compare divergent thinking. [defined in 1967 by Joy Paul Guilford]

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