PSY345H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Social Skills, Pragmatism, Walkover
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Exceptional exception to rule > far away from the average (top 1%) General ed designed around the average child doesn"t work well for exceptional children. > belief in a just world (not the case) the majority are average, so expect if someone is excellent in something, they are deficient in something else = average like everyone else {incorrect!} > equality in rights = equality in abilities; no premise for this. > it"s true some gifted fit the stereotype, but so do ungifted kids. > problem: labelled as gifted high expectation to be perfect. > it"s rare that child gifted educationally is gifted in all other aspects (sociable) > even in education - gifted in one domain typically (eg. gifted in math & snc won"t be gifted in writing & english) children aren"t perfect. > problematic for gifted kids & rest of population impossible to measure up to media"s standards live deficient lives b. c. never live up to perceptions.
