caa a22 4500 477140378 CHVBK 20180405111730.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19970901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1024787208551 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1024787208551 Goodyear Rodney Division of Counseling Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California aut Psychological Expertise and the Role of Individual Differences: An Exploration of Issues [Elektronische Daten] [Rodney Goodyear] Cognitive scientists have suggested that individual differences are relatively unimportant in predicting who will become an expert in any particular domain. This stance is at variance with the admissions screening practices of graduate programs in professional psychology as well as with counseling psychology's individual differences tradition. The purpose of this article was to consider some of the issues involved on both sides of this apparent contradiction, with particular emphasis on expertise in professional psychology. I first examine some of the possible operational definitions of expertise in this domain. I then consider salient literature and conclude that there almost certainly are "threshold levels” of intellectual and interpersonal skills that trainees in professional psychology should have. Beyond these levels, though, it may be that motivation and persistence are the most important variables in predicting the eventual attainment of expertise in professional psychology. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1997 professional psychology nationallicence expertise nationallicence cognitive psychology nationallicence Educational Psychology Review Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 9/3(1997-09-01), 251-265 1040-726X 9:3<251 1997 9 10648 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1024787208551 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1024787208551 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Goodyear Rodney Division of Counseling Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Educational Psychology Review Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 9/3(1997-09-01), 251-265 1040-726X 9:3<251 1997 9 10648 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer