التفكير الجانبي لدى طلبة الجامعة

Abstract

The current research aims to know the degree of lateral thinking the relationship between them at the students of the university of Baghdad , and the references of the differences of these concepts according to gender of the students and their scientific specialties. The researcher had done a test of lateral thinking according to the definition of De Bono The researcher investigated the standard properties of these two concepts. The final research sample reached about (442) students divided into (241) males and(201 )females from the students of the university of Baghdad, which were picked randomly. After applying the two concepts of the research and analyzing the data the researcher found the following:•The lateral thinking was low at the students of the university of Baghdad.•There is a relationship the lateral thinking and the ultimate degree components and they are all positive. •There is no effect for the gender in the degree of lateral thinking students.•There were no vivid influence for the gender and specialty in the degree of the lateral thinking at the students of the university of Baghdad. And according to these results the researcher submitted some recommendations and suggestions.