Peculiarities of cognitive and motivational-personality development of gifted senior schoolchildren

The paper offers the results of longitudinal research of the peculiarities of cognitive and non-cognitive personality development of mentally gifted s enior schoolchildren as compared with everage children of the same age. 120 pupils of 9-th grades have been tested three times in a year with the help of methods of diagnostic of intellectual and creative abilities, school an d outschool achievements and motivational-personality peculiarities. Stable differences in cognitive and non-cognitive personality development of pupi ls with different kinds and levels of giftedness and successfulness in lear ning activity have been exposed.