Discuss Howard Gardner's view of intelligence, including a description of his eight types of intelligences, and compare and contrast his view with the one utilized in traditional IQ testing

What will be an ideal response?

Answer will include that IQ tests define intelligence more as a g-factor (general abilities), which has been successful in predicting one's success in school. However, this narrow way of defining IQ has been controversial because children may have a weakness in one area but a strength in another.Many psychologists believe that it is time to forge new, broader definitions of intelligence with the basic goal being to better predict "real-world" success and not just the likelihood of success in school. One such psychologist is Howard Gardner of Harvard University, who theorizes that there are actually eight distinctly different kinds of intelligence, or different mental "languages" that people use for thinking. These eight include language (linguistic abilities), logic and math (numeric abilities), visual and spatial (pictorial abilities), music (musical abilities), bodily-kinesthetic (physical abilities), intrapersonal (self-knowledge), interpersonal (social abilities), and naturalist