Metacognition, Intelligence and Giftedness
- 1 January 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Gifted Child Quarterly
- Vol. 31 (1) , 37-39
- https://doi.org/10.1177/001698628703100108
Abstract
The contribution of metacognition to the better understanding of giftedness is explored in the context of the "triarchic" theory of intelligence and its subtheory of insight proposed by Sternberg and his colleagues at Yale University, and in relation to research into the interaction between availability and flexibility of cognitive style on one hand, and metacognitive knowledge and skill on the other. Support is offered for the importance of interactions among the elements (meta-components, performance components, and knowledge-acquisition components) of the triarchic theory to better explain giftedness. Finally, rather than regarding a theory of giftedness to be a subtheory of one of intelligence, might there be merit in considering the opposite order?Keywords
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