Theory of multiple intelligences The theory of multiple intelligences differentiates intelligence into specific (primarily sensory) 'modalities', rather than seeing intelligence as dominated by a single general ability . Howard Gardner proposed this model in his 1983 book Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences . According to Gardner, an intelligence must fulfill eight criteria: savants , prodigies and other exceptional people, and support from experimental psychology and psychometric findings. potential for brain isolation by brain damage, place in evolutionary history, presence of core operations, susceptibility to encoding (symbolic expression), a distinct developmental progression, the existence of Gardner chose eight abilities that he held to meet these criteria:musical-rhythmic, visual-spatial , verbal-linguistic , logical-mathematical, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and natur...
