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| Learning Characteristics | Gifted children are innate learners who often show many of these characteristics:
 • They have an eye for essential details, show keenness of observation and a sense of the significant.
• They may read plenty of books and magazines meant for children older than they are.
• They often find a great pleasure in mental performance.
• They have advanced powers of abstraction, conceptual view, and synthesis. • They see cause-effect relationships with no trouble.
• Since they have an inquiring mind, they seek information for their own sake just as like for its utility.
• They are skeptical, critical, and discerning. They are clever at detecting contradictions.
• They have a large store of information about diversity of topics, which they can bring to mind quickly.
• They learn underlying principles with speed and can often make valid generalizations about objects, people or events.
• They rapidly descry similarities, differences, and anomalies.
• They often get the better of complicated material by dividing it into parts and analyzing it systematically.
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