A Person Starts from One Point and Comes Up with Many

question 127

Multiple Choice

A person starts from one point and comes up with many different ideas or possibilities based on that point. The person is engaging in __________

• A) functional thinking.
• B) circular thinking.
• C) convergent thinking.
• D) divergent thinking.

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Definitions:

Ordinal Data

Data that is categorized into ordered levels, groups, or rankings, but the intervals between the ranks are not necessarily equal.

Interval Data

A type of data that consists of numerical values where the order and the exact differences between the values are meaningful.

Nominal Data

Data classified into distinct categories according to specified characteristics that cannot be ordered in a meaningful way.

Qualitative

Relating to, measuring, or measured by the quality of something rather than its quantity.