This theory is based on neuropsychological analysis of human abilities (Gardner, 1983) It argues that intelligence falls into seven categories: linguistic intelligence, musical intellligence, logical/mathematical intelligence, spatial intelligence, bodily/kinaesthetic intelligence, and two types of personal intelligence.
Personal intelligence includes awareness of your own feelings and the ability to notice individual differences in other people and to react to them so that you aresocially aware.
According to Gardner all seven abiltities are well represented in the brain and brain damage will impair them.
e.g people with damage to the parietal lobe can show apraxia; an inability to perform sequences of skilled movement. People with damage to the right parietal lobe develop spatial neglect. Damage to the front lobe will cause difficulty in decision making and interpreting social situations correctly.
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Sex Differences In Intelligence
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With Piaget's Water Level Test
Task: Look at the glass of water this strange looking alien man is drinking from. Where would you say the top of the water is if the glass is half full?
This is Piaget's Water Level test. If you are a man you probably drew the line horizontally across the glass. If you are a woman you probably drew the line parallel to the direction in which the water glass is tipped. The correct line would be a horizontal line. Men tend to be better at this task than women (Halpern, 1995).This illustrates one of the most consistent sex differences in cognitive ability.
One explanation for the Water Level Test is that men and boys are better at spatial ability than women. Spatial ability involves using skills in representing, transforming, generating and recalling symbolic, nonlinguistic information.