Helena N. Knyazeva Creative Thinking: Mechanisms of Functioning and Ways of Training

Abstract: The author shows that the creativity of nature, the formation of new forms and structures in it and the creative activities of a man obey united laws of self-organization and self-completing of complex structures, of appearance of structures out of chaos and of their complication. The model of self-completing of thoughts and images is proposed as a basic one for the understanding of functioning of creative thinking. The modern methods of training of creative thinking are under discussion. Key words: psychology, innovation, intuition, insight, creativity, thinking, self-organization, self-construction, consciousness, creative work