A type of thinking that narrows down multiple ideas to find the single best solution.

• A. Convergent Thinking
• B. Divergent Thinking
• C. Creativity
• D. Availability Heuristic

Answer: (A)

Convergent thinking is a problem‑solving approach that starts with many possible ideas and uses rules, criteria, or constraints to prune them down to the single best solution. In tasks with an objectively correct outcome, you assess each option against the problem’s requirements and keep the one that fits best, discarding others as irrelevant or incorrect. That narrowing process is exactly what this description describes.

Divergent thinking, by contrast, emphasizes generating a wide range of possible ideas without judging them yet. Creativity covers producing novel and valuable ideas, which can involve divergent and convergent elements but isn’t limited to selecting one correct answer. The availability heuristic is a cognitive bias where people judge something as more likely or true because it comes to mind quickly, not because of a systematic narrowing to the best solution.