Describe the Five Criteria for Judging Giftedness Outlined by Sternberg

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Essay

Describe the five criteria for judging giftedness outlined by Sternberg and Zhang.

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Definitions:

Subliminal Perception

The process by which stimuli are perceived without conscious awareness, influencing thoughts, feelings, or actions.

Absolute Threshold

The minimum stimulus intensity that an organism can detect at least 50% of the time.

Selective Attention

The process by which a person focuses on one or a few sensory inputs while ignoring other stimuli.

Perceptual Set

A tendency to perceive or notice some aspects of the available sensory data and ignore others, influenced by expectations, emotions, and culture.