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• 1 Lecture 1 - Underlying mechanisms and historical overview

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• How does Simonton define talent? 

  Talent may emerge from a multidimensional, multiplicative and dynamic process

• What are the three approaches to say that someone has talent (High performance relative to...)? 

  Normative approach - others
  Ipsative approach - previous performance
  Criterion approach - criterium
  
  NIC

• What two approaches are there to understand greatness?

  Component-dominant approach - What components?
  Interaction-dominant approach - How emerge?

• What is Galtons look on talent?

  Talent is located in the person. "Greatness is born, not made."
  
  He studied families and found that greatness is found more within families more than accross families.

• Name three factors of environmental influences.

  Family support
  Coaches/trainers to elicit greatness
  Cultural factors/facilities (Bobslee Jamaican)

• If talent and creativity develop out of a gene x environment interaction, in what circumstance does greatness cease to exist?

  When one of them is virtually zero

• What does Ericsson think is needed to achieve greatness?

  10000 hours of deliberate practice.

• Name the people who started the movement of focusing on innate talent / environmental factors / deliberate practice.

  Galton - Innate
  DeCandolle - Environment
  Erricson - Deliberate practice

• What does research of psychology say about the origins of greatness?

  They are multidimentional and dynamic

• What is not the case for developmental trajectories of greatness?

  1) Monotonic increase is the exception
  2) Early signs of later excellence are rare.