For the remote associates tasks, the convergent thinkers correctly solved more of the five remote associates problems then did those using divergent thinking.
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The convergent thinkers are too focused with selecting the best answer that they fail to appropriately evaluate minority opinion and could end up dismissing accurate solutions.
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Future investigations into this topic should focus more upon the developmental, cognitive and perpetual aspects of personality among divergent and convergent thinkers, rather than their attitude structures.
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Secondly, children develop into convergent thinkers, where they always believe there is only one right answer, rather than divergent thinkers, where they feel empowered to come up with different possibilities.
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Hudson ( Carey, 1991 ) identified two cognitive styles : convergent thinkers, good at accumulating material from a variety of sources relevant to a problem's solution, and divergent thinkers who proceed more creatively and subjectively in their approach to problem-solving.