Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences

Intrapersonal intelligence

- ability to understand one's own feelings and to draw on them to guide one's behaviour in an appropriate way

Naturalistic intelligence

- the ability to recognise and categorise natural objects

Interpersonal intelligence

- to read other people's moods, motivations, intentions and other internal states and effectively act upon this knowledge

Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence

- using one's body in highly specialised and skilled ways, as seen in athletes, dancers and gymnasts.

Two key claims:

1. all people possess all these intelligences\ 2. all individuals have a unique combination of the different intelligences.

Spatial intelligence -

mentally forming and using accurate visual images of real objects and events, mentally rotating objects in 3D-space

Musical Intelligence -

musical competence, such as understanding pitch, rhythm and tone

. Linguistic intelligence

the use of language and words (written and spoken)

multiple intellegences

American psychologist Howard Gardner proposes that we have multiple intelligences. He has identified eight, each of which is independent of the others. -musical -logical mathmatical -intrapersonal -interpersonal -naturaliastic -linguistic -bodily kinesthetic -spatial

Other facts:

Gardner believes that each of these intelligences operates in a different part of the brain Savant syndrome - usually score poorly on IQ tests but have one extraordinary specific ability (eg recall) Controversial theory because abilities such as 'body control' were considered intelligence Applied in classrooms

Gardner believes there is a 9th intelligence... existential intelligence.

ability to raise and consider basic questions about existence, life and death.

Logical-mathematical intelligence -

ordering and reordering numbers of objects to measure their quantity, using a sequence of logical steps in solving a problem.