Developing Talent Across the Lifespan

Download or read book Developing Talent Across the Lifespan written by Peter Heymans and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-05-24 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents fascinating new theoretical perspectives and empirical findings on the life-span development of talent. It shows how talents are the result of the acquisition of a sequence of skills and how the acquisition of these skills is facilitated by changes in the individual's environment. It explores to what degree the development of high intelligence or achievement is similar to the development of specific domains such as personality, morality, painting, musical performance, or professional skills. It questions whether the development of talent observed for specific groups is similar to individual cases and how the different numbers of highly talented women and men in several domains are to be explained.