(from the article `creativity`) ...on the amount of information a person can learn and retain, while creative thinking provides the flexibility necessary for the original production ...
Thinking which results in conventional solutions and answers or confomity. Contrast with divergent thinking.
noun thinking that brings together information focussed on solving a problem (especially solving problems that have a single correct solution)
A style of thinking in which a person narrows down a list of possibilities to arrive at a single right answer.