Publication details
Information behaviour of Gifted Children - The Qualitative Study
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| Year of publication | 2012 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
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| Citation | |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.11.405 |
| Field | Psychology |
| Keywords | information behaviour; giftedness; children; question skill |
| Description | The study focused on differences in information behaviour between intelectually gifted and averaged children in the pre-literate age. Results of this pilot study show what kind of information behavior raises unstructured stimulus situation for both groups of children studied how these groups differ in readiness to ask questions, long latency to the stimulus of responses and other monitored criteria. Preliminary results of the study suggest that the questions generated gifted children showing greater thematic diversity and never retains one aspect (eg external form) stimulus. |