2/27/2024 0 Comments Profoundly gifted iqOr, in the interpretation of art, a concrete thinker sees a painting of a mother holding her child and interprets the painting as, simply, a mother holding a child by such-and-such artist. The ability to see time as a mental construct, rather than just in the concrete meaning it has for us humans in organizing events, allows us to see patterns beyond the obvious, and allows us to use these patterns to guide us toward understanding a variety of ideas or clues to ultimately understand the bigger picture and to solve larger problems. Or it can be understood as an abstraction: time is a psychological concept overlaid onto some sort of phenomenological reality, and represents change, but is not a concrete thing in itself. COGNITION & HIGH+ GIFTEDNESSįirst, for context, a basic review of concrete vs. abstract reasoning (cognition) it will be helpful for readers who haven’t spent a whole lot of time thinking about the differences between the two. Whereas concrete reasoning allows us to think about what is here and now, in front of our eyes and in our hands, abstract reasoning allows us to conceptualize or generalize, understanding that each concrete object, experience or concept can have multiple meanings and be seen as just a part in a great matrix of complicated associations. Time, for example can be understood as a concrete concept: 60 seconds equals one minute, 60 minutes equal one hour, and so on. Each gifted person is like a variation on a theme. In my model, you could be highly, exceptionally or profoundly gifted in some areas and not in others. My own model of giftedness, which I’ve written about in my book, is based on a very holistic view of intelligence, one which includes: intellectual, emotional, sensual, creative, physical and existential varieties of intelligence, rather than relying on intellectual intelligence alone. Traditionally, levels of giftedness are defined by IQ scores, but anyone who knows me and my work knows that I struggle to define any level of giftedness by intellectual intelligence measures alone, though I admit that intellectual intelligence is an obviously important factor in the make-up of a gifted person. In considering their experience, it appears that their cognitive pattern is very similar to that of the highly and exceptionally gifted, but simply more extensive and speedy. This is not to make the same mistake in misrepresenting or under-representing the exceptionally and profoundly gifted among us, by lumping them into lower categories. For the sake of simplicity, I have focused on what I refer to as average (non-gifted) cognition, mild+ gifted cognition (mild and moderate giftedness), and high+ gifted cognition (high, exceptional, and profound giftedness). Through my work, I’ve sought to understand and explore the cognitive process and phenomenological experience of how gifted people at various “levels” take in, make sense of, see, and “feel” the world – as well as the sometimes vast differences between the experience of average (non-gifted) cognition and gifted cognition at the various levels. We all know that a mild or moderately gifted person can feel a strong sense of being an “alien” in a group of non-gifted people so too can a highly, exceptionally or profoundly gifted person feel a strong sense of being an “alien” in a group of mild or moderately gifted people (the same is true between profoundly and highly gifted too, and so on). With various levels and concepts of “giftedness” often grouped together into a one-size-fits-all description, the highly, exceptionally and profoundly gifted are misrepresented in important ways. The relatively little that has been written about the experience and cognition of the highly, exceptionally or profoundly gifted is proportionally consistent with the incidence of the phenomena, but the unfortunate result is that the net is cast wide in the existing literature on giftedness. The latter three types make up only a very small portion of that less than 5%. Giftedness is averaged to make up well less than 5% of the general population, and within that small number, there are subclassifications: mild, moderate, high, exceptional and profound giftedness. Written by Jennifer Harvey Sallin | originally published on rediscovering-yourself
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