Intelligence

Intelligence Theories:
Spearman: "a person is either smart, average, or below average in intelligence overall"
Gardner: "a person can have one intelligence and not another, or have more than one of the intelligences" If a person can remember, solve problems, and use language, does that make the person smart? How is intelligence defined and measured?

Two major theories explain intelligence.

Charles Spearman used a statistical analysis technique to take all the proposed types of intelligence and narrow them down to one specific type of intelligence that he called the g-factor (general intelligence). In his studies, he noted that people who do well in one subject area tend to do well in others too. So he would say that a person is either smart, average, or below average in intelligence overall.

Howard Gardner, on the other hand, saw intelligence as focused in eight unique areas that are independent of one another. According to this theory, a person can have one intelligence and not another or have multiple intelligences (more than one of the intelligences).

Learn more in the Gardner's Multiple Intelligences presentation:

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