摘要：This article describes the theoretical difference between the flexibility and the multidimensionalityof thinking. Multidimensionality is discussed as a characteristic of thinkingthat is necessary for exploration of the variability of structural transformations ofproblematic situations.The objective of the study was to examine a number of theories concerning the correlativeconnection between the multidimensionality of thinking and other characteristicsof creative, productive thinking: the flexibility of thinking; the formation of an operationof dialectical thinking such as “mediation”; the ability of a person to use a scheme asan abstraction for analysis of various specific content.A total of 85 people participated in the study: they were 15 to 17 years old, studentsat a senior school in Kaliningradskaya oblast, winners of different stages of the all-Russianacademic competition in physics, chemistry, and mathematics. All respondents hada high level of academic success and of general intelligence.The following techniques were used in this study: (1) my technique for diagnosticsof the multidimensionality of thinking; (2) my technique of “schemes and paintings,”designed for diagnostics of the ability to relate abstract schemes and various specific content;(3) the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (verbal battery); (4) a diagnostic techniquefor dialectical thinking: “What can be simultaneous?”All the hypotheses were confirmed.Confirmation was received of the existence of a correlation connection; this findingcounts in favor of the assumption that the parameters of thinking my colleagues and Iwere working with can in aggregate be considered an integral characteristic of humanthinking. It allows us to distinguish significant features of a situation from secondaryones—that is, to see a substantial contradiction and to propose several options for itstransformation.
关键词：multidimensionality of thinking; dialectics; theoretical generalization; flexibility;transformation; intellectual creativity
