Giftedness, talent and normal intelligence: differences in executive fuctions, learning potencial, cognitive style and interpersonal skills

Recently, literature defends that the evaluation of high capacity must be in a multidimensional way, not only the measure of IQ but also different variables. In this article, we have made a study to identify those areas in which high capacity children have differences with normal intelligence children. For that, we had 50 children, 19 of them were gifted children, 9 had different talents, and 25 children had normal intelligence and we also assessed executive functions, potential learning, cognitive style and interpersonal skills. After that, we have analized the results with ANOVA and we have proved significant differences in IQ, working-memory, phonological fluency, planning and cognitive style. However, we didn't find differences between the three groups in potential learning, visual-motor coordination, cognitive flexibility neither interpersonal skills.