1. Increased intellectual curiosity; the desire to know „how” şi „why” all things happen; he/she puts stimulating questions; he/she doesn’t content with mundane explanations.
2. High intellectual abilities; ability to work with abstract idea; to generalise, to note the corellations between various phenomena.
3. Unusual perseverance for his/her age, the decision to take things to the end, to complete assigned or elected tasks; the power to focus on task for a long time.
4. Exceptional speed of thought and development of response.
5. Ability to learn quickly and easily; ability to understand the tasks before all explanations should be provided ; he/she needs a little exercise to purchase some skills.
6. Good memory; apparently he/she needs no rehearsal.
7. Increased vocabulary; increased linguistic responsiveness; he/she exhibits persistence for precise understanding of the meaning of words; pleasure to use specialized and technical terms.
8. Great observation power.
9. Vivid imagination , manifested in all kind of activities (verbale and nonverbal).
10. Divergent thinking; he/she tends to look for unusual ways to solve problems.
11. Initiative spirit; preference for independent work.
12. Increased sense of humour.
13. Increased requirement to himself/herself ; self-imposed standards of excellence; tendencies to perfectionism; he/she isn’t content with others’appreciation, living intensly self dissatisfaction.
14. He/she hasn’t patience with himself/herself and others; intolerance towards weak people.
15. Increased reactivity and sensitivity; he/she feels immediately frustrated; vulnerability to disapproval and underestimation.
16. Wide range of interests; unusual passions to which he/she devotes with enthusiasm and competence.
17. Levels of knowledge and competences above average in a particular area.
18. Preference for entourage of adults and children older than his/her age.
19. The desire to dominate groups of friends.
20. He has concerns regarding the universal philosophy, such as human nature, the meaning of life, the concept of space.

Bibliography: Doru Vlad Popovici(2004), ”Introduction in psycho-pedagogy of gifted people”, Bucharest, Humanitas Publishing House