[MUSIC] Greetings, the listeners of psychodiagnostics and Psychological Assessment online course. We start studying the last theme. We are going to talk about contemporary approach to psychodiagnostics. I am referring to an integrated approach with involves continuity of intelligence of a person. And we start with considering psychodiagnostics of giftedness. In contemporary psychology, diagnostics of giftedness involves consideration of intellectual, personal and behavioral characteristics in the unity and interrelations. In the psychodiagnostics of intelligent abilities, it is necessary to pay special attention to the following characteristics. Intellectual initiative. Celebrate. Divergent thinking. Originality of thinking. Flexibility of thinking. Efficiency of thinking. Easiness of association. The ability to predict. Attention skills. Good memory. The ability to estimate. As for the psychodiagnostics of personality, it is necessary to pay attention to the following characteristics. High potential for self-realization. Flexibility behavior. Tolerance to uncertainty. The independence of judgement and action. Responsibility for own actions and their consequences. Social autonomy. Perfectionism. Cognitive egocentrism as the tendency to project one's own mentality on others. The tendency to lead the sheep. Curiosity. A sense of humor, an ability to detect absurd, to see humor in any situations. And a number of other characteristics. The phsychodiagnostics of behavior in rules in assessments of the process activities. The main method is a method of observation. The characteristics should be included in this special checklist. Continuous advancement of new goals through a new vision of the situation. Individual style of activity. The ability to self-study. Increased cognitive need. A pronounced interest in specific areas. Preference for paradoxical, contradictory and uncertain information. The rejection of standard typical tasks and ready answers. The tendency to put over-difficulty purposes and perseverance in achieving them. A classic example of giftedness, psychodiagnostics techniques is the solace scales. These scales for ratings of behavioral characteristics of superior students is a standardized instrument for identifying gifted people. J Renzulli scales are designed to obtain characteristics in the following areas. Learning Characteristics. Creativity Characteristics. Motivation Characteristics. Leadership Characteristics. Artistic Characteristics. Musical characteristics. Dramatics Characteristic. Communication Characteristics. Precision and expressiveness. Planning Characteristics. Mathematics Characteristics. Reading Characteristics. Technology Characteristics, and Science Characteristics. Bye. [MUSIC]