Intellectual giftedness
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Intellectual giftedness is an intellectual ability significantly higher than average. It is different from a skill, in that skills are learned or acquired behaviors. Like a talent, intellectual giftedness is usually believed to be an innate, personal aptitude for intellectual activities that cannot be acquired through personal effort.
Various ideas about the definition, development, and best ways of identifying intellectual giftedness have been put forward.
Intellectual giftedness may be general or specific. For example, an intellectually gifted person may have a striking talent for mathematics, but not have equally strong language skills.
Intellectual giftedness is not the only form of talent. Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences proposes several kinds of non-intellectual "intelligences", such as bodily-kinesthetic intelligence and interpersonal intelligence. Emotional intelligence is a broad term for one type of non-intellectual intelligence.
When combined with an adequately challenging curriculum and the diligence necessary to acquire and execute many learned skills, intellectual giftedness often produces academic success.
There is also artistic or creative giftedness, which may or may not be combined with intellectual giftedness.
See also
- Aptitude
- Child prodigy
- Davidson Institute for Talent Development
- Genius
- Gifted education
- Greatness
- Heritability of IQ
- IQ classification
- Multipotentiality
- Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth
- Talented programs
- A Nation Deceived: How Schools Hold Back America's Brightest Students
- Marland report
