Intelligence

Intelligence Intelligence is the ability to learn from experience, to think rationally, and to deal effectively with the environment. Louis Thurstone believed with his Theory of Primary Mental Abilities that intelligence was comprised of nine distinctly different elements, which he named as the primary mental abilities. These nine primary mental abilities were: visual and spatial ability (the ability to picture shapes and spatial relationships), perceptual speed (the ability to understand perceptual information rapidly and to see the similarities and differences between stimuli), numerical ability (the ability to calculate and recall numbers), verbal meaning (knowledge of the meanings of words), memory (the ability to recall information, such as words and sentences), word fluency ( the ability to thin of words quickly for such tasks as rhyming or doing crossword puzzles), deductive reasoning (the ability to derive examples from general rules), and inductive reasoning (the ability to derive general rules from examples.) Howard Gardner with his Theory of Multiple Intelligences believed that there were seven different kinds of intelligences: linguistic intelligence (the ability to effectively employ words either orally or in writing), logical-mathematical (the ability to effectively employ numbers and to reason soundly), visual-spatial intelligence (the ability to perceive the intelligence, intelligences, ability, believed, words, theory, one, gardner, abilities, primary, nine, human, divided, different, triarchic, thurstone, sternberg, spatial, seven, practical, people, parts, one’s, mental, hit, effectively, distinct, creative, able, work, visual-spatial, visual, understand, together, three