Matyushkin A. M.

The paper consideres main trends in current studies in the psychology of thinking and creating. Two approaches are identified toward the study of thinking and creativityadaptive, the most clearly represented in behaviourism, and productive substantiated in this country by S. L. Rubinstein (1958). The most significant directions in research into thinking and creativity include the study of 1) individual thinking. 2) thinking in dialog (communication), 3) group thinking and creativity in conditions of cooperation conflict control, etc. The approach toward thinking as a productive process permits one to solve the questions of development, diagnostics and organization of creative thinking at all the age-specific stages in conditions of game learning, communication and in various kinds of professional creative activity.