Types of Intelligence
The Seven Types of Intelligence. Psychologist Howard Gardner is clearly a very bright individual. In 2005, he was selected by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines as one of 100 most influential public intellectuals in the world. He has received honorary degrees from twenty colleges and universities, including institutions in Ireland, Italy and Israel.
He has identified the following distinct types of intelligence. They are listed here with respect to gifted / talented children.
- Linguistic Children with this kind of intelligence enjoy writing, reading, telling stories or doing crossword puzzles.
- Logical-Mathematical Children with lots of logical intelligence are interested in patterns, categories and relationships. They are drawn to arithmetic problems, strategy games and experiments. (That was me- David!)
- Bodily-Kinesthetic These kids process knowledge through bodily sensations. They are often athletic, dancers or good at crafts such as sewing or woodworking.
- Spatial These children think in images and pictures. They may be fascinated with mazes or jigsaw puzzles, or spend free time drawing, building with Lego or daydreaming.
- Musical children are always singing or drumming to themselves. They are usually quite aware of sounds others may miss. These kids are often discriminating listeners.
- Interpersonal Children who are leaders among their peers, who are good at communicating and who seem to understand others' feelings and motives possess interpersonal intelligence.
- Intrapersonal These children may be shy. They are very aware of their own feelings and are self-motivated.
Well I say that number 2 was very strongly me, but I also feel that something of numbers 4 and 7 was also true. I used to love jigsaws and mazes and did a lot of things on my own. This is interesting stuff so I'll be reading up on this.
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