Summarize Research on Giftedness and the Criticisms of Current Techniques

question 303

Essay

Summarize research on giftedness and the criticisms of current techniques to measure giftedness.

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Definitions:

Overconfidence

A cognitive bias where an individual's subjective confidence in their judgments is reliably higher than their objective accuracy, leading to potential errors in decision making.

Hindsight Bias

The predisposition to think, once an event has taken place, that one could have predicted or anticipated its outcome.

Intuition

An effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought, as contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning.

Overconfidence

Overconfidence refers to the phenomenon where an individual's subjective confidence in their judgements is reliably greater than their objective accuracy, especially when confidence is relatively high.