1991'6, p.14
Gurova L. L.
Cognitive-personal characteristics of creative thinking in general giftedness structure
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The correlation of intellect and personality in general giftedness structure is considered. It is hypothesized that giftedness is based upon structural organization of consciousness and not upon social-psychological and individual-typological personal traits. Motivated attitude to knowledge and activity content, regulative and instrumental mechanisms of activity (leading to heuristi-city), adaptive and dynamic characteristics of personality are marked out. The author considers the comprehension and decision making to be integrative cognitive-personal manifestations of giftedness. Necessary components of comprehension (understood as general contact with the world) are as follows: adequateness, depth, completeness and exactness. The adoption of decision depends on intellectual self-discipline. There is a hypothesis that structural hierarchy of giftedness is multi-variant and that individual giftedness structure is a result of inner causes' manifestation through outer conditions.