Creativity is usually associated with

Creativity is the phenomenon whereby imaginative and original ideas are turned into reality. It is a cognitive ability to produce something novel by offering a fresh perspective.

• There are some elements that create hindrances to creativity such as Functional fixedness, Convergent thinking, and Mental set but Divergent thinking is not a hindrance to creativity.

Key Points Creativity is related to the concept of 'divergent thinking' as creativity to the ability to identify or prepare original and divergent solutions to problems. 

Divergent thinking refers to:

• a way of solving problems with more than one approach.

• an act of working with open-ended questions using creativity.

• a process that includes brainstorming, out-of-the-box thinking, etc.

• the ability possessed by the people who are creative, persistent, and imaginative.

Hence, it could be concluded that Creativity is usually associated with Divergent thinking.​

Hint

Convergent thinking:

• It refers to thinking where thinking converges towards one right answer instead of exploring the extra information.
• It hinders creativity as it doesn't let the learners think in a divergent way.