Sort each claim by the theory it belongs to.
Groups: Gardner (Multiple Intelligences) · Sternberg (Triarchic)
- Rates the person who reads a room well alongside the one who reads a proof
- Counts knowing your way around a forest, or around other people, as ability
- Musical and bodily-kinesthetic are separate intelligences
- Intelligence has three components: analytical, creative, practical
- Ability comes in many kinds, and school notices only a few of them
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- Many distinct intelligences is Gardner; three components (analytical/creative/practical) is Sternberg.
- Musical, naturalistic, and interpersonal are Gardner's categories.
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Gardner (Multiple Intelligences): Ability comes in many kinds, and school notices only a few of them, Counts knowing your way around a forest, or around other people, as ability, Musical and bodily-kinesthetic are separate intelligences
Sternberg (Triarchic): Intelligence has three components: analytical, creative, practical, Rates the person who reads a room well alongside the one who reads a proof
Roughly eight distinct intelligences (musical, naturalistic, interpersonal) is Gardner; the three-component analytical/creative/practical structure is Sternberg. The number and kind of divisions distinguish the two theories.
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