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Via 100 entries, 21st Century Psychology: A Reference Handbook highlights the most important topics, issues, questions, and debates any student obtaining a degree in the field of psychology ought to have mastered for effectiveness in the 21st century. This two-volume reference resource, available both in print and online, provides an authoritative source to serve students’ research needs with more detailed information than encyclopedia entries but without the jargon, detail, or density found in a typical journal article or a research handbook chapter. Students will find chapters contained within these volumes useful as aids toward starting research for papers, presentations, or a senior thesis, assisting in deciding on areas for elective coursework or directions for graduate studies, or orienting themselves toward potential career directions in psychology.
Chapter 58: Giftedness
Shortly after the 1916 release of the Stanford-Binet Scale of Intelligence in the United States, Lewis Terman initiated research to find out more about those who had unusually high scores on this individually administered test. The formal study of giftedness had begun. Terman's Genetic Studies of Genius was published in 1925 and reported on 1,528 gifted children. Since that time the field of giftedness has grown dramatically as measured both by the literature and the number of professional organizations concerned with the nature and education of the gifted. This extensive literature has been characterized by a lack of unanimity as to a definition of giftedness or how it is to be measured. Yet the huge amount of available information clearly shows that knowing about ...