Compare Sternberg And Gardner's Approaches To The Study Of Intelligence

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The recent approaches to the study of the intelligence has been separated into two types of approaches. There are the Sternberg's Approach and Gardner's Approach.
Sternberg deemed intelligence as the purposive adaptation to,selection of, and shaping of real world environments relevant to one's life & abilities. However, from Gardner's point of view, the aspects of intelligence are varied.All of the intelligence are independent and function simultaneously. Gardner's research on intelligence is more exactly to be the same as the theory of the localization of function.In order to discover more about the types of intelligence, we have set in a group to attempt the brain IQ'S test. In this report, we learnt more on Gardner's Approaches to the study of intelligence.

From the brain IQ's test we have took together, we found out that there are four types of intelligence are measured in the test. There are linguistic intelligence, logical-mathematical intelligence, spatial intelligence and also the naturalist intelligence. First of all the linguistic intelligence. Linguistic intelligence is the complement ability of an individual to convey languages spoken and the able to understand the messages given from other speakers. The people with high linguistic intelligence is the extent to which an individual can use language, both written and verbal, to achieve goals. In addition to this, high linguistic intelligence has been linked to improved problem solving as
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So, automatically that person is really like to inform the people around they of what had they feel, desire and understand their surroundings. They also typically able to communicate effectively with the words, gestures and tone of voice when multitude the situation. In language reasoning test, we must be able to use vocabulary to express ourselves clearly and

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