Cognitive
characteristics of the gifted student may include:
- extraordinary
quantity of information;
- unusual retentiveness;
- advanced comprehension;
- unusually varied interests and curiosity;
- high level of language development;
- high level of verbal ability;
- unusual capacity for processing information;
- accelerated pace of thought processes;
- flexible thought processes;
- heightened capacity for seeing unusual and diverse relationships;
- ability to generate original ideas and solutions;
- early ability to use and form conceptual frameworks;
- persistent goal directed behaviour.
Creative characteristics of the gifted student may include:
- tries to do
things in different, unusual, imaginative ways;
- has a really zany sense of humour;
- enjoys new routines or spontaneous activities;
- loves variety and novelty;
- creates problems with no apparent solutions and enjoys asking you to solve them;
- loves controversial and unusual questions;
- has a vivid imagination;
- seems never to proceed sequentially.
Affective (or
emotional) characteristics of a gifted student might include:
- large accumulation of information about emotions that has not been brought to awareness;
- unusual
sensitivity to the expectations and feelings of others;
- keen sense of humour;
- may be gentle or hostile;
- heightened self-awareness, accompanied by feelings of being "different;
- idealism and a sense of justice that appear at an early age;
- advanced levels of moral judgement;
- high expectations of self and others, which often lead to high levels of frustration with self, others and situations;
- unusual emotional depth and intensity;
- sensitivity to inconsistency between ideals and behaviour.
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