The Multiple Intelligences
Gardner articulated seven criteria for a behavior to be considered an intelligence. These were that the intelligences showed:
- Potential for brain isolation by brain damage,
- Place in evolutionary history,
- Presence of core operations,
- Susceptibility to encoding (symbolic expression),
- A distinct developmental progression,
- The existence of savants, prodigies and other exceptional people,
- Support from experimental psychology and psychometric findings.
Gardner chose eight abilities that he held to meet these criteria: spatial, linguistic, logical-mathematical, bodily-kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalistic. He later suggested that existential and moral intelligence may also be worthy of inclusion.
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