14 Gardner Flashcards
Just How Are You Intelligent? Year
1983
Just How Are You Intelligent? Author
Gardner
Just How Are You Intelligent? Background/Theory (3 things)
(1) In the 1970s and 80s, researchers began to question the validity of the unitary, g theory approach to human intelligence.
(2) This emerging approach expanded the notion of intelligence into many different mental abilities, each possessing in itself the characteristics of a complete free standing intelligence.
(3) Gardner contends that different parts of the human brain are responsibel for different intelligences.
Just How Are You Intelligent? Method (4 things)
Gardner developed a set of 8 indicators that define an intelligence, including:
(1) potential isolation of the intelligence by brain damage.
(2) a distinctive developmental history of intelligence and the potential to reach high levels of expertise.
(3) ability to study intelligence with psychological experiments.
(4) ability to measure the intelligence with existing standardized tests.
Just How Are You Intelligent? Results (4 things)
Gardner discoverd at least 8 different types of intelligences, including:
(1) Logical-Mathematical
(2) spatial
(3) interpersonal
(4) intrapersonal.
Just How Are You Intelligent? Significance (2 things)
(1) Multiple Intelligences Theory has greatly influenced education, especially the shift from “learning disabilities” to “learning differences.”
(2) Today virtually all US schools incorporate the theory to varying degrees.
Just How Are You Intelligent? Legacy (3 things)
(1) Research: Iranian students rate their fathers as better at inter and intrapersonal intelligence than British students, but British students rate their fathers as better at mathematical/logical.
(2) Research: People’s rating of their own intelligences correlate with their gender identities (male with math, female with music, etc.)
(3) Criticism: Not actually different intelligences but different thinking styles.
