Psychology: Howard Gardner Intelligence Paper
I. Introduction: Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences Harvard Psychologist Howard Earl Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences presents a model of intelligence that differentiates it into modalities (e.g., bodily-kinesthetic, visual-spatial, interpersonal, logico-mathematical, etc.), rather than a single general ability (i.e., intelligence quotient). Although people were born with intellectual potentials, under Gardner’s Theory, it is only one or many of the facets of the many intelligences that a person could possibly have. Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence, for instance, refers to individuals’ ability to use a part or whole of his body dexterously. Some of the people with this type of intelligence are physical ...
