Thought Mapping, also known as Mind Mapping, is an effective graphical thinking tool for expressing divergent thinking, it is simple yet effective. Mind mapping uses graphic techniques to express the relationship between various levels of topics in a hierarchical diagram of mutual affiliation and relevance, and to establish memory links between topic keywords and images, colors, and so on.

Thinking Maps fully utilizes the functions of the left and right brains, utilizing the laws of memory, reading, and thinking to assist people in the balanced development of science and art, logic and imagination, thus opening up the unlimited potential of the human brain. Thinking Maps therefore have a powerful function of human thinking.

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"Thinking Maps" emphasizes too much on "image memory" and "free association" instead of "free association". For students with poor abstract thinking skills, "image memorization" can indeed help students improve the efficiency of "memorizing knowledge", but it cannot deepen students' understanding of knowledge, which is a kind of shallow learning.

Free Divergent Association is characterized by a freewheeling, uncontrolled thinking, and is more suitable for "brainstorming" type of creative activities, rather than for teaching subject knowledge.

The mind map is an effective and efficient mode of thinking, applied to memorization, learning, thinking and other thinking "map", is conducive to the diffusion of the human brain thinking unfolding. Thinking map has been widely used in the world, Singapore Ministry of Education will be thinking map as a compulsory subject in elementary school, a large number of top 500 companies are also learning thinking map, China's application of thinking map has more than 20 years of time.