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Essay on Three Models of Intelligences
There has had been constant discussion as to the nature of knowledge, where human minds are and the capacity of human intelligence has had a long, prosperous and at times difficult history. Since the earliest of times, such opinions have polarized from those who hypothesize human intelligence as a unitary and singular general capacity, to others who advocate a more pluralistic model of our cerebral competencies. For most of the past (20th) century, the study of human intelligence was, in the main, focused on the former the adaptive use of general cognitive potential.
The following observations call into question this unitary g-type model of human intelligence and foster, instead, a more pluralistic approach to cognitive capacities. What follows, instead, show that the psychological construct termed 'human intelligence' is more than a single 'dip-stick' testing action, that is, a one-time pen-and paper timed measurement of human competences.At the one end of the intellectual continuum, and more the focus lays a pluralistic, incremental, and dynamic notion of intelligence, to be more precise, intelligences, or “frames of mind”. This “many kinds of minds” notion is promoted by numerous theorists, particularly cognitive psychologists who postulate the existence of a much broader intellectual range .
Three Models of Intelligences: A Comparison
Over the past many years, the 'g' factor has come into serious question. There has been a surge of scientific research involving cerebral capacities, or human intellectual potential, particularly within the field of developmental cognitive science. Two such current cognitivists, Robert Jeffrey Sternberg, of Yale University, and Howard Earl Gardner of Harvard University, continue to represent the two leading investigators in this field as they argue for a view of intellectual capabilities broader than assumed from scores on intelligence quotient (IQ) types of standardized tests. Their research findings imply that people have many forms of human intelligences in and around them......
