PSYC 471 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Kid, These Kids, Michelle Wie

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 471
• Professor: Richard Koestner

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Lecture 12: ericsson would say the key to developing talent would be to have oriented goals, so, everything is linked in what we have seen so far, today he wants to link flow and peak. Benjamin bloom"s 1985 research on the development of expertise: education researcher, wanted to understand the backgrounds of the kids who end up being experts, did retrospective interviews. Ellen winner"s conclusions in regards to families of gifted children (2000) If you are going to be academically gifted, you"ll have the other things plus an intellectual household. Koestner says wtf i"m smart and my house had no intellectual stimulation lmfao. Problem with bloom"s study was that it was retrospective. Key factors associated with talent development (1997: a talent will be developed if it produces optimal experiences , brooke is experiencing flow when she climbs. Vip : mastery focus goals; get better goals!: challenge yourself!