PSY345H5 Lecture Notes - Theory Of Multiple Intelligences, Mental Age, Wics
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Gifted children and youth who have exceptionally high intelligence. Gifted, creative and talented words used to describe individuals with extraordinary capabilities or the capacity for developing them. Creativity includes elaboration (ability to enrich an idea), transformation (ability to construct new ideas) and visualization (capacity to manipulate ideas mentally) Alfred binet 1900"s constructed the development assessment scale for youth and children. Mental age binet and simon derived by matching tasks (memory, vocabulary) performed by the child to the age scale (which showed typical performance in various ages) Terman introduced the stanford-binet intelligence scale individual intelligence test. 1920"s being intelligent only meant having a high iq. Gulford saw intelligence as a wide range of intellectual and creative abilities. Intellectual model each cube contained a unique kind of operation, content and product, hence a distinctly different intellectual ability. Children or youth who perform at remarkably high levels of accomplishment when compared to others the same age.
