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Five issues about giftedness are discussed. First, the origins of giftedness are explored. The view that giftedness is entirely a product of training is critiqued. There is indirect evidence for atypical brain organization and innate talent in gifted children: Many gifted children and savants have enhanced right-hemisphere development, language-related difficulties, and autoimmune disorders. Second, the intense motivation of gifted children is discussed. Third, it is argued that gifted children have social and emotional difficulties that set them apart. Fourth, evidence for the often uneven cognitive profiles of such children is presented. Finally, the relationship between childhood giftedness and "domain" creativity in adulthood is discussed. Few gifted children go on to become adult creators because the skills and personality factors required to be a creator are very different from those typical of even the most highly gifted children. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: journal abstract)

Gifted children, those with unusually high ability in one or more domains, not only develop more rapidly than typical children, but also appear to be qualitatively different. They have an intense drive to master, require little explicit tuition, and, if intellectually gifted, often pose deep philosophical questions. Although some psychologists have tried to account for the achievements of gifted individuals solely in terms of drive or "deliberate practice," no evidence allows us to rule out innate differences in talent. Profiles of gifted individuals are often uneven: Extremely high ability in 1 area can coexist with ordinary or even subnormal ability in another area. Scientific investigation of the gifted reveals the importance of drive and hard work in achievement of any kind, and the lack of necessary correlation among abilities in different areas. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

Gifted children—children years ahead of their peers—have long inspired fascination, envy, fear, and rejection. Misconceptions about children with special abilities abound. In this . . . book, Ellen Winner uncovers and explores 9 myths about giftedness, and shows us what these children are really like. Using vivid case studies, Winner paints a complex picture of the gifted child. Winner uses her research with these and several other extraordinary children, as well as the latest biological and psychological evidence, to debunk the many myths about academic, musical, and artistic giftedness. [This book] also looks at the role played by schools in fostering exceptional abilities. Winner castigates schools for wasting resources on weak educational programs for the moderately gifted. Instead, she advocates elevating standards for all children and focusing our resources for gifted education on those with extreme abilities—children who are left untouched by the kinds of minimal programs we have today. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: jacket)

In this chapter, I discuss eight topics about giftedness. It is my hope that an understanding of the first six topics will help the reader understand the eighth topic, where I consider the puzzle of childhood giftedness - why it is that the link between childhood giftedness and adult genius is so weak. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

examined incidental visual memory in both adults . . . and children examin[ed] the relationship of visual memory to giftedness in the visual arts / relationship between visual giftedness and both sex and handedness examined whether children identified as gifted in the visual arts were more likely to be left-handed and/or male than children not so identified / relationship between visual memory and sex and handedness (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

We argue for a wide range of innate differences in ability in any domain, and that children with high levels of ability in a particular domain share three characteristics: they learn rapidly (precocity), they are intensely driven to learn (a rage to master), and they learn differently from typical children (they march to their own drummer). In the visual arts, high levels of ability have been most often noted in the ability to draw realistically. We show that this ability is independent of IQ and present some evidence that this ability is related to local processing skill. We also note one case study of a child who showed all three characteristics of giftedness but whose drawings were abstract rather than realistic. Thus it is possible that there are two routes that gifted child artists follow―one the early representational/realism route and the other the early abstraction route. We conclude the chapter by discussing our recommendations for how artistically gifted children should be taught and present the Reggio Emila approach in Italy as an excellent approach to the education of both typical and gifted children. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: book)

Lynn Liben raises three broad, thought-provoking issues in her chapter on giftedness in the spatial-graphic domain (see chap. 4, this volume; see record 2009-00231-004). First is the role of the study of giftedness in developmental psychology and the question of why giftedness is such a neglected area of study within psychology. Second, she prods readers to consider just how one should undertake the study of spatial giftedness, which is itself a much neglected domain of study within the area of giftedness relative to the study of mathematical and verbal giftedness. And finally, she leads readers to recognize what can be learned from the study of spatial-graphic giftedness. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

In this chapter, the authors focus on extreme giftedness--individuals whose potential and/or achievement are several standard deviations above the norm. The authors focus their attention on children because they are interested in early signs of giftedness and in how such atypical children are best identified, assessed, and educated. Gifted children stand out in four striking ways. They are precocious in their domain of ability; they are passionate about and have a rage to master that domain; they think, learn, and solve problems in ways that are qualitatively different from typical children; and they are aware of being different from others. Those four ways are discussed, along with a number of ways to identify and evaluate giftedness, and educating extremely gifted students. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: create)

consider what is known about exceptional development in two art forms: the visual arts, and music / our primary but not exclusive source of evidence will be case studies of individuals who have shown unusual giftedness in these domains distinguish between individuals of normal or high intelligence who are gifted in a domain, and individuals who are gifted in one domain, but extremely retarded in all other areas / such pathological individuals are typically referred to as savants / determine what distinguishes the gifted individual of normal or high intelligence from the gifted individual who is in all other respects low-functioning (either retarded or autistic) distinguish between giftedness and creativity / a creative individual revolutionizes a domain of knowledge / there is no necessary link between giftedness and creativity / focus here on childhood giftedness, and make no assumptions that early signs of giftedness are necessarily predictive of adult creativity (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

Reviews and discusses research on giftedness development and the education of gifted or talented children. Technical issues include the definitions of gifted and talented, characteristics of giftedness (precocious, intrinsic motivation, creativity), indicators of giftedness such as IQs, and differential areas of giftedness such as the arts. The author presents an overview of theory and evidence supporting creativity and talent as positive characteristics, including research on a proposed model (Simonton, 1999) that is multidimensional and dynamic, late-bloomers, giftedness and well-being, introversion, and methodological weaknesses in gifted research. Research on the developmental stability of creativity and talent over the life span suggests that although gifted children tend to become high-achieving adults, the transition from gifted child to adult creator is often painful, and only a fraction become "big-C creators". Implications for education and promotion of creativity and talent are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

"Conceptions of Giftedness from a Meta-theoretical Perspective" / Albert Ziegler and Kurt A. Heller "A History of Giftedness in School and Society" / Abraham J. Tannenbaum "Giftedness as Developing Expertise" / Robert J. Sternberg "Understanding the Complex Choreography of Talent Development Through DMGT-based Analysis" / Francoys Gagné "New Conceptions and Research Approaches to Creativity: Implications of a Systems Perspective for Creativity in Education" / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Rustin Wolfe "Giftedness in Non-academic Domains: The Case of the Visual Arts and Music" / Ellen Winner and Gail Martino "Genius and Giftedness: Same or Different?" / Dean K. Simonton "International Trends and Topics of Research on Giftedness and Talent" / Kurt A. Heller and Neville J. Schofield (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: book)