In this book, the methods of developing non-standard thinking skills in students during the teaching of electromagnetic waves and atomic and nuclear physics departments are studied. The role of imagination in non-standard thinking and the activation of brain activity in the thinking process, for this purpose the use of intellectual maps "Imagination", "Sensory channels" and "Relationship of cerebral hemispheres to specialities", topics using the intellectual maps "Electromagnetic waves", "Nature of light", "Impacts" methods of developing full thinking skills in students during the transition process are presented. The results of the experimental study of the proposed methods are presented, including a diagram comparing the level of development of students' thinking skills.