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Title

The Origins and development of high ability / [edited by] Gregory R. Bock, Kate Ackrill.

Publication

Chichester, England ; New York : Wiley, 1993.

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Additional Authors

• Bock, Gregory.
• Ackrill, Kate.
• Symposium on the Origins and Development of High Ability (1993 : Ciba Foundation)

Description

viii, 258 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

• The outstandingly high abilities shown by certain individuals are a valuable human resource. Despite much talk of maximizing human potential, there have been few systematic efforts to increase the number of people capable of exceptional accomplishments, and many questions have yet to be answered fully. How does high ability arise, and how and why does it develop?
• How can early talents best be identified, and what conditions are most likely to facilitate the development of exceptional children into high-achieving adults? Are a child's commitment to improve his or her abilities and the encouragement of this by parents and teachers the cause or the result of the child's talents? Must one be a highly able child to become a highly able adult?
• Can any motivated, 'ordinary' individual who makes sufficient efforts at improvement reach heights of ability normally regarded as indicative of inherent exceptionality, or is a certain genetic constitution a prerequisite?
• In this book, psychologists and educational specialists address these and other questions from a variety of perspectives. They discuss the extent to which giftedness depends on general intelligence, and what factors contribute to an individual being labelled as gifted. The 'nature versus nurture' debate is a major theme throughout, with a chapter describing the latest research attempting to identify specific genes that contribute to intelligence.
• The role an individual's environment plays in the expression and achievement of high ability is also considered, with parental influences featuring strongly. An examination of the early lives of child prodigies and a study of some mould-breaking creative adults lead to an exploration of the relationship between early giftedness and later achievement. Specialities investigated in particular include mathematics, science, language, music and invention

Series Statement

Ciba Foundation symposium ; 178

Uniform Title

Ciba Foundation symposium ; 178.

Subject

• Gifted persons > Congresses
• Gifted children > Congresses

Note

• Proceedings of the Symposium on the Origins and Development of High Ability, held at the Ciba Foundation, London, Jan. 25, 1993.
• "A Wiley-Interscience publication."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction / R. C. Atkinson -- The concept of 'giftedness': a pentagonal implicit theory / R. J. Sternberg -- Giftedness and intelligence: one and the same? / D. K. Detterman -- Psychological profiles of the mathematically talented: some sex differences and evidence supporting their biological basis / C. P. Benbow and D. Lubinski -- Genetics and high cognitive ability / R. Plomin and L. A. Thompson -- The early lives of child prodigies / M. J. A. Howe -- Musical ability / J. Sloboda -- Boys and girls who reason well mathematically / J. C. Stanley -- Scientific ability / K. A. Heller -- Mechanical inventiveness: a three-phase study / N. Colangelo, S. G. Assouline, B. Kerr, R. Huesman and D. Johnson -- The relationship between early giftedness and later achievement / H. Gardner -- Family influences on the development of giftedness / M. Csikszentmihalyi and I. S. Csikszentmihalyi -- Accelerating language acquisition / W. Fowler, K. Ogston, G. Roberts-Fiati and A. Swenson.
• Can we create gifted people? / K. A. Ericsson, R. Th. Krampe and S. Heizmann -- Closing remarks / R. C. Atkinson.

ISBN

0471939455 :

LCCN

93029488

OCLC

• 28584392
• ocm28584392

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Columbia University Libraries