Study on the Mechanism of Improving Creative Thinking Capability Based on Extenics

Creative thinking is the core of Creativity. The current psychological researches on creative thinking mainly focus on cognitive mechanism and brain mechanism, but the studies on how to improve creative thinking ability are rare. Develpoed by Cai Wen, a Chinese scholar, Extenics is a subject that uses formalized models to study the possibility of expansion and the rules and methods of innovation, so as to solve contradictory problems.This article explores the mechanism that affects creative thinking. Based on tbasic-element theory, extension analysis, extension transformation and conversion bridge, the paper systematically discovers the function of extenics on breaking the mindset, developing divergent thinking and promoting remote association capacity, and proposes the approach to promote creative thinking by combing “Extenics + creatology + TRIZ” so as to help the cultivation of innovative talents.