Maziar O. Conceptualization of the problem of giftedness in the works of I. О. Sikorsky.

The dissertation represents results of the research the conceptualization of the problem of giftedness in the works of Sikorsky I. О., which was carried out on the development of a fundamental problem of individuality. I.О. Sikorsky offered the reveal the characteristics of gifted personalities on neuropsychological, psychophysiological, psychological and socio-psychological levels, discovered and analyzed particularities of interaction of the inherited and social factors in the development of giftedness. An integral index of the giftedness is the orientation of personality, which is built on the unity of perceptible, intellectual and volitional spheres, and also proper psychophysical conditions of their activity and high moral principles. At an empiric level of I.О. Sikorsky showed that even in the case of insufficient development of inherited abilities a gift is formed due to the circumspect system of training and educational activity.