✅ Checkpoint: Idea Generation Techniques

By Better Wise

Quiz

  1. During a mind mapping session, when should you start naming and judging themes?
    • Never; themes should stay unnamed until the capstone
    • Only after the brain dump is finished and the map is built
    • While dumping, so you can cross out weak phrases early
    • As soon as a strong theme appears, so you can focus the dump on it
  2. You have clustered your mind map and ended up with five groups. What does the lesson recommend?
    • Keep all five so you do not lose any material
    • Merge until exactly three named themes remain
    • Delete the two smallest groups outright
    • Expand to twelve themes so every node has a home
  3. In SCAMPER, the letter S stands for ____.
  4. Which SCAMPER prompt asks you to remove a core piece and check whether the value survives?
    • Adapt
    • Eliminate
    • Combine
    • Modify
  5. After running all seven SCAMPER prompts, how many mutations should you keep, and on what basis?
    • Two, chosen for surprise, a real need, and testability
    • All seven, so nothing is lost
    • The seven safest ones, to reduce risk
    • One, the first idea that appeared
  6. Which of these is a structural analogy rather than a surface analogy?
    • Borrowing the emergency room's rule of routing by severity before arrival order
    • Copying a competitor's color scheme and layout
    • Saying our product is 'like a Ferrari for cooking'
    • Making our app 'like Uber, but for dog walkers'
  7. In the three-step transfer, after naming the mechanism you abstract it into a general ____ that can dock onto any problem.
  8. Why does the lesson say to pick a source domain that is two steps away rather than one?
    • One step away gives you competitors; two steps gives you structure
    • Distance guarantees the transferred idea will work
    • Distant domains are easier to research quickly
    • Near domains have no mechanisms worth borrowing
  9. Which of these are among the five reliable source buckets for unusual analogies? Select all that apply.
    • Direct competitors in your own industry
    • Institutions such as courtrooms and fire stations
    • Craft and trade
    • Nature and biology
    • Games and sport
  10. Run one full analogy transfer on your capstone problem: pick a distant domain, name its mechanism in one sentence, abstract it to a rule, force it onto your problem, and sketch a cheap test. Then assess your own work.

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