What is Intelligence?

• Intelligence is an inferred process that humans use to explain

the different degrees of adaptive success in people’s
behavior
• The mental abilities that enable one to adapt to, shape, or
select one’s environment
• The ability to judge, comprehend, and reason
• The ability to understand and deal with people, objects, and
symbols
• The ability to act purposefully, think rationally, and deal
effectively with the environment
Multiple Intelligences
A theory by Howard Gardner of
Harvard University
Linguistic Intelligence
• Word Smart
• Ability to write or read
• Ability to rhyme
• Good speakers
• Actors
• How many of you can speak or
write?
• Well-developed verbal skills
and sensitivity to the sounds,
meanings and rhythms of
words
 Logical/Mathematical Intelligence

• Number smart
• Ability to do math
• Ability to balance a checkbook
• How many of you can count your
money?
• How many of you have done a
science experiment?
• Ability to think conceptually and
abstractly, and capacity to discern
logical and numerical patterns
Spatial Intelligence
• Picture Smart
• Who can draw pictures?
• How many people can see
pictures in their heads when
they close their eyes?
• How many of you like movies,
tv, or video games?
• Capacity to think in images
and pictures, to visualize
accurately and abstractly
Kinesthetic Intelligence
• Body, sports or hand
smart
• Who can dance, play
sports, build models?
• Ability to control one’s
body movements and to
handle objects skilfully
Musical Intelligence
• Music Smart
• Who likes music?
• Who can play an
instrument?
• Ability to produce and
appreciate rhythm, pitch
and timbre
Interpersonal Intelligence
• People Smart
• Who has at least one friend or
associate?
• Who likes group work?
• Capacity to detect and
respond appropriately to the
moods, motivations and
desires of others
Intrapersonal Intelligence
• Self Smart
• Who has ever talked to
themselves?
• Who likes to work on their own?
• Who takes care of themselves
after school?
• Capacity to be self-aware and in
tune with inner feelings, values,
beliefs and thinking processes
 Naturalist intelligence
• Ability to recognize and categorize
plants, animals and other objects in
nature.
• How sensitive an individual is to
nature and the world.
• Interested in growing plants, taking
care of animals or studying animals
or plants.
• Zookeepers, biologists, gardeners,
and veterinarians are among those
that Gardner sees as having high
naturalist intelligence.
 Wrap Up
There is a belief that you can be good at all of
them, but inevitably we favor certain
intelligences. It is important to know how you
are intelligent so you can do your best to
adjust and adapt to what you have to learn.
If you are musically smart, memorize facts in
songs. If you dance well, create a dance about
certain stories, or act out a short skit, etc