

Gifted child possesses high ideational level in productive and evaluative thinking.Ħ. A gifted child makes outstanding contribution to the welfare, quality of living and our society.ĥ. He possesses a superior central nervous system high degree of intellectual, creative and imagination.Ĥ. A gifted child is one who shows remarkable and outstanding performance in any worthwhile task.ģ. The giftedness is upper extreme on the normal distribution of any trait e.g. In the above definitions of ‘giftedness’, psychologists have enumerated the following general characteristics:ġ. According to Prem Pasricha, “The gifted child is the one who exhibits superiority in intelligence or the one who is in possession of special abilities of high order in the field which are not necessarily associated with high intelligent quotient.”Īccording to Havighurst, “The talented or gifted child is one who shows constantly remarkable performance or outstanding behaviour in any worthwhile endeavour.”Īccording to Terman and Witty, “The gifted children that Terman and Witty studied is, “Superior in physical development, educational achievement, intelligent and social personality.”Īccording to Simpton and Lucking, “The gifted children are those who possess a superior central nervous system characterized by the potential to perform tasks requiring a comparatively high degree of intellectual obstruction of creative imagination of both, are called gifted child”.Īccording to Lucito, “The gifted are those children whose potential, intellectual powers and abilities are at such as high ideational level in both productive and evaluative thinking that it can be reasonably assumed that they could by future problem solvers, innovators and evaluators of the culture if adequate educational experiences are provided to them.”
