I ntroduction. In the Renaissance, a study
of the nature of giftedness was carried
out by the Spanish scientist Juan Huarte, who
considered individual differences in abilities for
the purpose of further professional selection.
The representative of the era of enlighten-
ment, the English educator John Locke put
forward the theoretical position "the process of
cognition arises in experience and on the basis
of experience, the human mind is a"pure board".
Most scientists of the era of enlightenment
insisted on the idea that "each person can be
developed to the highest degree of genius, it's
all in the conditions in which he turned out to
be".
At the end of the nineteenth century, an em-
pirical approach to the study of giftedness made
it possible for the English scientist Francis
Galton to put forward the idea that "outstanding
abilities are the result of the action of hereditary
factors”.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the
term "intellectual giftedness" was introduced
in psychology and then in pedagogy, it was
associated with the name of the French
psychologist A.Binet. Such followers of A.Binet
as L.Terman [1916], R.Maylee [1928], J.Raven,
R.Amthauer [1936], R.Kettel [1958] improved
the techniques, created new test tasks for the
definitions of the "intelligence coefficient".
V.Stern gave a broad definition of intellectual
giftedness, which distinguishes the orientation
of thinking by the distinctive features of
intellectual giftedness. In the presentation of
V.Shtern, the concept of giftedness is not limited
only to the intellect and distinguishes the general
giftedness. He gave the following definition of
giftedness: "Mental giftedness is the general
ability to consciously direct your thinking to
new demands, there is a general mental ability
to adapt to new tasks and conditions of life".
This characteristic of giftedness contributed to
the development of levels of differentiation of
giftedness.
L.Termen put forward the idea that in
different spheres of activity, it is not the
intellect of IQ that is required, but the more
complex qualitative peculiarity of the psyche
that is capable of generating original ideas,
that is, "creativity". The study of problems of
productive thinking in Western European and
American psychology dealt with J.Gilford,
K.Dunker, V.Lowenfeld, V.Keller, C.Koffka,
N.Mayer, L.Sekey, P.Torrance and others.
The model of the structure of intelligence
developed by J.Gilford has created the
possibility of a new understanding of creativity
as a universal, cognitive ability. The key moment
for the psychology of giftedness was the
difference he introduced between two types of
thinking: convergent and divergent. As a result
of this study, J.Gilford's ability to converge
thinking began to be identified with the test
intelligence measured by the IQ system, and the
ability for divergent thinking - with creativity.
Therefore, testing of the main parameters of
divergent thinking can be considered as a way
of diagnosing creativity.
Testing creativity has created a desire to
determine whether there is a connection bet-
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