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Like other children, the gifted children too have certain basic needs such as need for love, for security, for belonging and the need to be accepted as an individual. In addition to these basic needs, the gifted children may have certain special needs like-

the need for knowledge and understanding
creativity and ingenuity
the development of his exceptional […]

This is the oldest of all transfer theories (also known as the Faculty Theory) . This theory assumes that the mind of composed of so many independent faculties, e.g. memory, attention, imagination, reasoning and judgment. These faculties, according to this theory, are nothing but the “muscles of the mind” and like muscles of the body, […]