PSY345H5 Chapter 15: Gifted, Creative, and Talented
Document Summary
The terms gifted, creative, and talented are associated with children, youth, and adults who have extraordinary abilities in one or more areas of performance. Some believe that gifts and talents are overrated and that outstanding performance in most endeavors comes from consistent and deliberate practice. For years, behavioral scientists described children and youth with exceptionally high intelligence as being gifted. Only recently have researchers and practitioners included the adjectives creative and talented, to suggest domains of performance other than those measured by traditional intelligence tests. Not all individuals who get high scores on intelligence tests are creative or talented. Of the 20th century was there a suitable method for quantifying or measuring the human attribute of intelligence. Alfred binet, constructed first observing children at various ages to identify specific tasks that ordinary children were able to perform at each age.
