PSY345H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Gifted Education, Intelligence Quotient, Theory Of Multiple Intelligences
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A changing era in the lives of children, youth, and adults who are gifted, creative, and. The terms gifted, creative and talented are associated with children, youth, and adults who have extraordinary abilities in one or more areas of performance. Gifted, creative, and talented: terms applied to individuals with extraordinary abilities or the capacity for developing them. Capacities associated with creativity include elaboration, transformation, and visualization. Alfred binet constructed the first developmental assessment scale for children in the early 1900s. This scale was created by observing children at various ages to identify specific tasks that ordinary children were able to perform at each age. Mental age (ma): a score that represents the individual"s mental age according to various tasks he or she is able to perform on a given iq test. Children who are able to complete tasks well beyond their chronological age (ca) will have a higher mental age (ma) and thus a higher-than- average iq score.
