Table 6: Relationships between cognitive characteristics of the profoundly gifted and intellectual overexcitability (OE).
Cognitive characteristics of highly-profoundly gifted |
Intellectual overexcitability in a combined with other forms of OE |
· An early ability and love of reading |
· Intellectual OE combined with Emotional OE |
· A compulsion to learn · The desire for complexity |
· Intellectual OE on levels III and IV · Intellectual OE on level IV |
· Perspective insights · The ability to skip steps |
· Intellectual OE on levels III and IV |
· Divergent thinking capabilities |
· Intellectual OE on level IV |
· The ability to see patterns and · The ability to comprehend the abstract |
· Intellectual OE on level IV |