Precocious realists are children who are able to create realistic drawings that resemble those of adult artists. Is this talent a splinter skill, or is it associated with other kinds of high ability? We administered IQ and visual–spatial tasks to 12 precocious realists and compared their performance to a control group of children matched on age, gender, and socioeconomic status (SES) and asked their parents to complete questionnaires assessing their children’s personality traits. Precocious realism proved unrelated to either superior verbal or nonverbal IQs and proved related only to two of the five visual–spatial tasks we administered. Precocious realists scored higher on the trait of openness to experience and their parents described them as having extreme rage to master. Contrary to some previous claims, they did not show any elevated autistic-like traits. We conclude by making education recommendations for artistically gifted children.

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童年的极端绘画写实主义

早熟的现实主义者是能够创作出与成人艺术家相似的写实绘画的儿童。这个天赋是分裂技能，还是和其他高能有关？我们对 12 名早熟现实主义者进行了 IQ 和视觉空间任务，并将他们的表现与年龄、性别和社会经济地位 (SES) 匹配的对照组儿童进行了比较，并要求他们的父母完成评估他们孩子性格特征的问卷。早熟现实主义被证明与卓越的语言或非语言智商无关，并且仅与我们执行的五项视觉空间任务中的两项有关。早熟的现实主义者在对经验的开放性方面得分更高，他们的父母形容他们对掌握的极度愤怒。与之前的一些说法相反，他们没有表现出任何升高的自闭症样特征。最后，我们为有艺术天赋的孩子提出教育建议。