{"id":8,"date":"2008-09-27T01:16:14","date_gmt":"2008-09-27T05:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sammy\/?p=8"},"modified":"2008-09-27T01:20:01","modified_gmt":"2008-09-27T05:20:01","slug":"intelligence-human-potential-and-life-transformation-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sammy\/2008\/09\/27\/intelligence-human-potential-and-life-transformation-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Intelligence, human potential and life transformation (part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Developmental psychologist Dr <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pz.harvard.edu\/PIs\/HG.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Howard Gardner<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pz.harvard.edu\/PIs\/MultipleLensMay2005.pdf\">defined intelligence<\/a> as &#8220;a biopsychological information-processing capacity to solve problems or fashion products that are valued in at least one community and culture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to him, <strong>different parts of the brain are responsible for different abilities: metaphoric, graphic, narrative, musical, graphic, calculation and the like. <\/strong>He argued that one&#8217;s sophistication with one kind of mental representation does not predict his sophistication with other representations.<\/p>\n<p>Gardner was not convinced that there is one single general intelligence, &#8220;g&#8221;, as proposed by many psychologists before him. He believed that <strong>we have a multiplicity of intelligences<\/strong>. Instead of being a single giant computer, intelligence should be viewed as a set of relatively independent computer, and different brain regions mediate different skills.<\/p>\n<p>The eight intelligences proposed by Gardner included:<\/p>\n<p><strong>(1) Linguistic intelligence<br \/>\n(2) Logical mathematical intelligence<br \/>\n(3) Musical intelligence<br \/>\n(4) Spatial intelligence<br \/>\n(5) Bodily &#8211; Kinesthetic intelligence<br \/>\n(6) Interpersonal intelligence<br \/>\n(7) Intrapersonal intelligence<br \/>\n(8) Naturalistic intelligence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gardner also made an important distinction between intelligence and morality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developmental psychologist Dr Howard Gardner defined intelligence as &#8220;a biopsychological information-processing capacity to solve problems or fashion products that are valued in at least one community and culture.&#8221; According to him, different parts of the brain are responsible for different abilities: metaphoric, graphic, narrative, musical, graphic, calculation and the like. He argued that one&#8217;s sophistication [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1920,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[16471],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychology","tag-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sammy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sammy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sammy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sammy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1920"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sammy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sammy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sammy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sammy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sammy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}