Child Development Theorists: Howard Gardner

Multiple Intelligence (MI) theory was developed by an American psychologist named Howard Gardner (Child development theorists: Freud to Erikson to Spock . . . And beyond, 2009). With his extensive musical and artistic passion as a young person, he noticed the absence of these categories when he began his research in psychology as an adult. He made it a personal goal for his career to find the place where these categories could exist as part of psychology research (Helding, 2009). The MI theory consists of eight categories, as follows, linguistic, mathematical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal and naturalist. Gardner’s theory insists that an individual’s intelligence consist of varying levels in these eight …show more content…
My strongest type of intelligence, as part of the MI theory, is Interpersonal intelligence because two of my three strengths fall into that category. My third personality strength falls into the Intrapersonal intelligence category (Helding, 2009). I have been made aware that when I am involved in a project at work that communication runs smoothly. I think I have an ability to get everyone involved and talking so that we can collaborate better. As part of my communication skills I am very honest with feelings and situations. Typically, this is a strength that others can appreciate about me. Unfortunately, it does not always benefit because sometimes other people may not want to hear the truth of a situation. I get upset when this happens, because my intention is never to upset others, but it does happen sometimes. I usually try to be open about situations that have happened to me to make the other person feel at ease. This is also one of my strengths, but it does open me up to judgement from …show more content…
That is why I chose them to take Jung’s Typology Test (2017). Their results could not have been more spot on and it has helped me understand them a little better, especially my husband. It was interesting to see some of his behaviors that I might not appreciate, are just simply part of his personality and has little to do with me at all. The results showed that my mother is an ISFP and my husband is an ESTP. My favorite strengths about my mother are selflessness, creativity, and the ability to focus on today. She has this great ability to not stress about the future nor dwell on the past. She is generally a happy person because of this ability to focus on today and current tasks (Wiederman, 2007). She also feels that she could be more creative so she is consistently learning new ways to incorporate arts into her life. She loves to create things for her family and we appreciate that, it makes her and us happy. Furthermore, she is one of the most selfless people I know, which is a wonderful trait, but can also hurt her. She is the one to put everyone else’s needs before her own. Due to this, she creates a very warm and genuine friendship with a lot of people and has the ability to provide great emotional support. She has helped me countless times with my woes of being a wife and mother myself. I hope to be the same wonderful mother to my kids as she has always