Psychology-based cultivation of college students with innovative thinking

Abstract

In the new era, it is an important task to promote the innovative thinking of students through college education. This paper explores the cultivation of the innovative thinking for college students from the perspective of psychology. First, a questionnaire survey was carried out among students from a university in Beijing, China, by random sampling. Based on the survey data, the psychological mechanism of college students in the cultivation of the innovative thinking was discussed from four aspects: active communication, teaching cognition, deep processing, and learning experience. Finally, some suggestions were put forward to promote the cultivation of college students with innovative thinking. The results show that, during the cultivation of innovative thinking, the college students generally have low or medium psychological level, and the cultivation mode needs further improvement; there are some problems with the cultivation of innovative thinking for college students, such as the lack of learning interest, insufficient study time, poor learning efficiency, undesirable learning quality, and the shallow understanding of the learning contents. The research findings provide a reference for applying psychological mechanism in college education.