FRHD 2110 Chapter 7: CHAPTER 7
1 Jun 2018
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CHAPTER 7
Why is Geoffrey Considered Gifted?
• Definition of Giftedness
o One who scores high on an intelligence test or academic achievement test
o Geoffrey’s giftedess as deteried efore shool
• Other Definitions of Giftedness
o Gifted
▪ at proise i ay doai reogized as iolig itelligee
o Prodigy
▪ Extreme promise in any domain recognized as involving intelligence;
distinguished by performance that is not only promising but impressive by adult
standards
o Precocious
▪ Earlier-than-expected, domain specific development that ranges from mildly
advanced to astonishing
▪ Distinguished by performance within an age group and not measured against
adult standards
o Expert
▪ Has achieved a high level of competence in a domain, irrespective of whether
the approach measured against adult standards
o Creative
▪ Regularly solves problems or fashions products in a domain in a way that is
initially seen as novel but that ultimately is recognized as appropriate
o Genius
▪ Produces work that is expertly executed and creative, and has a profound effect
on the domain
• Assessing Giftedness
o Geoffrey was bored and unhappy in class
o Completed 2 standardized tests
▪ Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children III
• Verbal and nonverbal abilities
• 3 IQ scores
o Verbal IQ, performance IQ, full-scale IQ
▪ Rae’s Progressie Matries
• Nonverbal test
• 60 items
o Each containing a missing piece
o Geoffrey scored above 99%
▪ Cofired Geoffrey’s superior aility to uderstad
visual-perceptual relations and to reason by analogy
independent of language and formal schooling
o Visual-spatial abilities
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▪ The ability to efficiently visualize and manipulate objects in space
What Fators Cotriuted to Geoffrey’s Giftedess?
• Heredity
o Parents were highly successful individuals
o Mother found public school did not challenge her enough
• Environment
o Conceptual information
▪ Mental representations of the knowledge one has about concrete and abstract
objects
o Richness of resources and stimulation
Ho Has Geoffrey’s Giftedess Affeted Hid Deelopet?
• Cognitive Development
o Read from an early age
Characteristics of Students who are Gifted
• Learning characteristics
o Unusually advanced vocabulary for age or grade level
o Possesses a storehouse of information about a variety of topics
o Has quick mastery and recall of factual information
o Has rapid insight into cause-effect relationships
o Can make quick generalizations about events, people, or things
o Is a keen and alert observer
o Reads a great deal on their own
o Tries to understand complicated material by separating it into its respective parts
o Reasons things out
o Sees logical and common-sense answers
• Motivational characteristics
o Becomes absorbed and truly involved in certain topics or problems
o Is easily bored with routine tasks
o Needs little external motivation to follow through in work that initially excites
o Strives towards perfection
o Prefers to work independently
o Iterested i ay adult proles religio, politis
o Is often self-assertive and/or stubborn in their beliefs
o Likes to organize and bring structure to things, people, and situations
o Is quite concerned with right and wrong
• Creativity characteristics
o Displays a great deal of curiosity about many things
o Generates a large number of ideas on problems
o Is uninhibited in expression of opinion
o High risk-taker
o Displays a good deal of intellectual playfulness
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Document Summary
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