Title: Howard Gardner | Biography, Theory, Multiple Intelligences, Psychology, & Facts | Britannica
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Howard Gardner
American psychologist
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…that of the American psychologist Howard Gardner and that of Sternberg. In 1983 Gardner challenged the assumption of a single intelligence by proposing a theory of “multiple intelligences.” Earlier theorists had gone so far as to contend that intelligence comprises multiple abilities. But Gardner went one step farther, arguing that…
genius
…developed by the American psychologist Howard Gardner, is the theory of multiple intelligences. Gardner identified at least eight particular types of intelligence. Like all human traits, these so-called “multiple intelligences” are thought to be distributed relatively evenly throughout a population. It is likely that the genius, however, is born with…
prodigy
…proposed by the American psychologist Howard Gardner —linguistic, mathematical-logical, spatial-visual, musical, kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, or naturalistic.