DEVELOPMENTAL POTENTIAL OF THE GIFTED

FIVE DIMENSIONS TO MEASURE DEVELOPMENT POTENIAL

• Psychomotor
• Sensual
• Intellectual
• Imaginational
• Emotional

All OVEREXCITABILITIES

PSYCHOMOTOR

PSYCHOMOTOR

SENSUAL

SENSUAL

INTELLECTUAL

INTELLECTUAL

IMAGINATIONAL

IMAGINATIONAL

EMOTIONAL

EMOTIONAL

THE STUDY

• Used Model of developmental potential
• Intellective component: intellectual oE
• Non-intellective components: other OVEREXCITABILITIES
• 26 girls and 23 boys, Aged 12-17
• Identified gifted by test scores, grades and teacher nominations
• 28 gifted adults (21 women, 7 men)
• Identified by Mensa Membership or Gre, sat or IQ scores.
• 19 Artists (12 women , 7 Men)
• Identified as writers, poets, singers, film producers, choreographers, graphic designer and weaver
• 42 non-gifted grad students from all fields

RESULTS

SENSUAL AND PSYCHOMOTOR

• Sensual Lower in adolescence
• Sensual Possibly tied to age
• Psychomotor not significantly different in the samples

GIFTED HAVE THESE 3

• Imaginational
• Emotional
• Intellectual
• Intellective was seen as abilities aNd drive to pursue questions
• Adults and adolescence gifted had these characteristics

3 OE CHARACTERISTICS:

• Can be Modes of advanced function
• Thought of as information flow
• Can be narrow or wide
• Having both Emotional and IMAGINATIONAL may be true indicators of creativity and productivity

3 OVEREXCITABILITIES

• Not all may be present
• Likely two will be
• Lower scores overlap with non-gifted
• Much individual variation

OVEREXCITABILITIES are not areas of competence but instead, the kind of endowment that feeds, nourishes, enriches, empowers, and amplifies a talent to be more than a bare computational device.--
Piechoski and colangelo

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