Using Analogies Can Be Useful for Stimulating Creative Thinking Because

question 40

Multiple Choice

Using analogies can be useful for stimulating creative thinking because

• A)Analogies help us think about things in different ways.
• B)Analogies are unlikely to cause us to go off on a tangent
• C)Analogies encourage us to think about problems in an historical context
• D)All of these are reasons analogies can be useful for stimulating creative thinking
• E)None of these, analogies are not useful for stimulating creative thinking

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