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Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Harvard University psychologist Howard Gardner, author of Multiple Intelligences, believes that human beings possess ...
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Alternate Views of Intelligence
Some researchers are dissatisfied with our nation’s heavy reliance on intelligence tests and the subsequent use ...
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Emotional Intelligence
Emotion has been studied from a variety of theoretical frameworks (e.g., Fox, 1994). Psychoanalytic theorists have ...
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The Personal Intelligences in the Early Childhood Classroom
The social development of young children has traditionally been marked by observable behaviors such as sharing (Chen, ...
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Learners May Be More Intelligent in Some Domains Than in Others
Although learners who perform well on one intelligence test also tend to perform well on others, a single high score ...
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Two Ways of Knowing
Socrates, the founder of the inductive method (Watson, 1978), was a master at analytical reasoning. Plato, his student, ...
Source: Visual Spatial Resource Center
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Sternberg's Triarchic Model of Intelligence
Intelligent Behavior Involves...Environmental Context Adapting behavior to fit the environment Adapting the ...
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Logical/Mathematical Intelligence
Gardner (1993, p. 143) describes logical/mathematical intelligence as “the ability to recognize significant ...
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Bodily/Kinesthetic Intelligence in the Early Childhood Classroom
An early childhood curriculum that truly understands and respects bodily/kinesthetic intelligence follows four guiding ...
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Approaching Musical Intelligence in the Classroom
The MENC standards indicate that there is much more to music than listening to it in the background while performing ...
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Plastic Brain Outsmarts Experts
Can human beings rev up their intelligence quotients, or are they stuck with IQs set by their genes at birth? Until ...
Source: National Science Foundation
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What Exactly Is Intelligence?
There is probably no aspect of contemporary psychology that is more misunderstood by the general public than ...
Source: U.S. State Department
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Spatial Intelligence in the Classroom
An early childhood curriculum that understands and respects spatial intelligence takes three guiding principles into...
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Intelligence
A final factor affecting learning is intelligence, or the inherent capability of the learner to understand and learn....
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Starting Smart: How Early Experiences Affect Brain Development
Michael Stevens is a healthy, beautiful newborn baby. As his parents admire him, they wonder, "What will Michael be like...
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Emotional Intelligence
According to Goleman (1995), one’s IQ contributes only 20% to the factors that are responsible for success in life....
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Intellectual Development
Human beings develop in 4 different aspects of growth: Social, Physical, Intellectual, and Emotional. The areas are all...
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