Multiple Intelligence

In “A Rounded Version: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences”, Howard Gardner illustrates how there are a variety of intelligences. Gardner starts off with an example how IQ tests may predict achievement in school but may not predict achievement in life. After finding out certain parts of the brain are responsible for certain functions, such as “Broca’s Area” which is responsible for sentence production, Gardner proposes the existence of multiple intelligences. Multiple studies later led him to propose seven distinct intelligences; Musical, bodily-kinesthetic, logical-mathematical, linguistic, spatial, interpersonal, and intrapersonal. Each intelligence has certain classifications. According to Gardner’s classifications, I realized my intelligences are bodily-kinesthetic, logical-mathematical, and intrapersonal.

What is intelligence exactly? Intelligence is the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills or “the ability to learn and understand things to

     A renowned professor of education and psychology at Harvard University, Howard Gardner has radically changed the way we look at intelligence. In 1983 Gardner published the first of two books that theorize that there are multiple intelligences. Gardner believes “that human cognitive competence is better described in terms of a set of abilities, talents, or mental skills, which we call “intelligence” (378). Gardner’s theory dismisses the idea that intelligence is a single attribute of the mind and suggests that there are different types of intelligences that account for different human

Interpersonal intelligence: People with Interpersonal intelligence are good with people and thrive in social interactions. They are good at reading, empathize and understanding others. They are good at working with others and have many friends. They learn best through interaction and dialogue. The greatest strength of Rodriguez is his interpersonal skill, due to the special education services that were provided for Rodriguez as a child with a behavioral challenges, he has been able to

Intelligence as defined by the Cambridge dictionary is the ability to learn, understand, and make judgments or have opinions that are based on reason.1 There is much debate and controversy on this subject and psychologists do not all agree upon a standard definition. Yet, one of the very first definitions of intelligence was developed by the psychologists responsible for the development of the first intelligence test, Binet and Simon (1905) who argued that the essence of intelligence is: ‘to judge well, to comprehend well, to reason well’.2 Another sample definition was provided later by Heim, in 1970, who argued that ‘intelligent activity consists in grasping the essentials in a situation and responding appropriately to them’.3 There are also arguments surrounding how many different types of intelligence there are, as well as the intelligence theories of psychology. However elusive, we can ascertain that all psychologists have universally agreed upon general intelligence (g), an expression devised by the English psychologist Charles Spearman and defined as ‘a mental attribute called on for virtually any task’.4 This essay will inform the reader of the different methods proposed and used by psychologists to assess ability and discuss their evaluations.

Modern psychology has been dominated by scholars either resident or have studied in North America. It means that many observations were made based on the society in that region. At some point, the scholars realized that there could be a bias, and that is where the idea of different cultures having different behaviors, social cues and definitions of intelligence. In this paper, the author shall investigate three of Gardner’s types of intelligence and apply aspects to different cultures around the world.

People can be intelligent in many ways. One of the ways is interpersonal intelligence, being intelligent by being able to sense people's feelings and motives. Another way is being able to discern sounds, their pitch, tone and rhythm. The last way is to understand how you feel, what you want, and understanding what you're feeling. Many people are very musically intelligent like me.

Intelligence is referred to as an individual’s capacity for understanding, logic, learning, self-awareness, planning, emotional knowledge, problem solving and creativity. It can be generally described to be the ability of perceiving information, and retaining it as the applied knowledge towards some adaptive behaviors within a particular context or environment. Individuals do differ from each other in their understanding ability of complex ideas, to learn from their experiences, to adapt effectively to the environment, to overcome the obstacles through taking thought and to engage in the various reasoning forms. Though these individual differences can be found to be substantial, they are not always entirely consistent, for instance, the intellectual

This brings us to Howard Gardner who is the Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Boston, MA. Mr. Gardner’s educational philosophy is that there is a relationship between intelligences and how the person learns the information being taught. Gardner broke this down into eight separate intelligences: linguistic intelligence, musical intelligence, logical-mathematical intelligence, spatial intelligence, bodily-kinesthetic intelligence, interpersonal intelligence, intrapersonal intelligence, and naturalist intelligence.

> Musical intelligence is associated with enjoying music, singing, creating music, and playing an instrument. It involves a sensitivity to sounds as well as the emotions music conveys. I should Listen to music while you study to connect its patterns and sounds with the discipline you are meditating. To replay the same song just before a test. Create a rhyme, song, or chant for material you would like to take.

The two intelligences are interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence. Interpersonal intelligence is the way an individual can get along with other people, intrapersonal is how one understands oneself (Jacobus 505). Although not limited to high schools, these intelligences are often coupled with the five others aforementioned. For example, an athlete needs bodily-kinesthetic intelligence in order to become successful. But, in order for the team in which athletes are in, interpersonal intelligence is required for the team as a whole to be successful. Choir members need to work together and in synchronism in order to attain the maximum of their abilities. In terms of intrapersonal intelligence, all students who strive for greater achievements require it. High schools offer counselors who guide students and help them attain intrapersonal intelligence to allow students to determine what they feel as their role in society.

As stated in our reading there a total of 8 multiple intelligences developed by Howard Gardner. Each type of intelligence is not the same for every person. Everyone has their own unique personality and therefore has their own style of learning or retaining information provided to them. There are certain surveys you can take in order to determine where your particular intelligences fall. I have taken one of these surveys and have chosen three of my top intelligences to explore further and to determine what skills in each type of intelligence are most effective for me to retain new information, not only in my education but

What is intelligence? Is it how well an individual can excel at academic tasks, emotional tasks, or physical tasks? Can intelligence be measure scientifically and accurately or is it an abstract idea or concept that requires an individual to critically think and come up with an answer? A common interpretation of intelligence is the ability or abilities of an individual’s capacity for: logic, emotion, abstract, learning, planning, understanding, memory, self-awareness, creativity, and most important of all is the ability to problem-solved. Intelligence itself is an umbrella with subtypes under it, and the one to inquire about is the theory of multiple intelligences. Many scientists believe that this theory does not exist because it cannot be proven scientifically but multiple intelligence theory does exist. Multiple intelligences is not a teaching style as many seem to believe, but it is a new way to look at the IQ of an individual while not being bounded by the traditional IQ tests. Just like general intelligences theory, the multiple intelligence theory can be used to distinguish intelligences through tests, logically define theory, as well as real world experiences and applications. These two theories, multiple and general intelligence, has been debated time and time again in the field of psychology but with no absolute solution.

By definition, intelligence is the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills. It is determined by the ways we are able to solve problems, our mathematical skills, interpersonal and intrapersonal knowledge, and naturalist intelligence. We are able to test our personal intelligent through many different quizzes called IQ tests. One of the most popular ones being the Stanford Binet tests, which is used as a good resource to test the intelligence of students. However, it is questionable whether or not IQ tests are very accurate.

The theory of multiple intelligences was developed by Dr. Howard Gardner in 1983. The Theory of Multiple Intelligences is a critique of the standard psychological view of intellect: there is a single intelligence, adequately measured by IQ or other short answer tests. Instead, on the basis of evidence from disparate sources, the theory claims that human beings have a number of relatively discrete intellectual capacities. IQ tests assess linguistic and logical-mathematical intelligence, and sometimes spatial intelligence; they are a reasonably good predictor of who will do well in school. This is because humans have several other significant intellectual capacities (Harvard University).