ESSENTIALLY FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF BASIC DEFINITIONS OF THE PHENOMENON OF CREATIVE THINKING
Values reorientation of the spiritual spheres of society, evolution of a scientific picture of the world, ways of its learning stimulate the interest of society to the problem of creative thinking development, because only creative way of thinking enable a full life activity of everyone. It is found that: thinking is a process that ensures the movement of subjective learning from knowledge to new knowledge; creativity - is making new and is realized through creative activities; central element of creative activity is the creative process; creative thinking - is the process of creating a new, is a creative process. So creative thinking of the individual is identified as a complicated process of mental activity based on acquired scientific concepts and leads to the creation of new subjectively or objectively significant material and spiritual values and to the formation in the human psyche of methods and ways of intellectual actions of ability to solve the problem.