Is gifting a social reality or an individual gift? How should adults treat gifted children? How to develop this quality of the psyche? How not to confuse giftedness with a stubborn character? These and many other questions will be answered in this article.
What is giftedness?
Giftedness is a systemic quality of the psyche that develops throughout life, which enables a person to achieve outstanding results that are higher than other people.
Gifted child
A child is considered gifted, which stands out for its obvious, vivid, sometimes even outstanding achievements in one or several types of activity. Scientists unanimously say that talented children . «» «» . «» , «». - . . , . « , ?», . . – . , , , . , , .
Is it easy to be gifted?
Giftedness is a kind of qualitative combination of those human abilities that ensure him the successful implementation of activities. Abilities act together with each other, that is, they represent a certain structure. This allows you to compensate for the lack of some abilities due to the development of others. Today, many psychologists believe that giftedness is the result of a complex interaction of the social environment and heredity. But at the same time, the role of self-development mechanisms of a person’s personality, which underlie the realization and formation of individual talent, cannot be ignored.The development of giftedness in children
Endowment is a significant advance in mental development compared to age norms.Such children are inherent in:
- increased curiosity;
- excellent memory;
- abstract thinking;
- huge vocabulary;
- highly developed fantasy;
- vivid imagination;
- developed sense of humor;
- exaggerated fears.
Children's giftedness is established and studied only in the process of education and training. The initial years of a child’s life are associated with the enormous potential of brain activity, so the mentally gifted “child prodigies” can be distinguished even at this age.