Defining criteria of an intelligence

The criterion "Potential Isolation by Brain Damage" refers to the notion that distinct intelligences can be independently affected by brain damage. This means that a specific ty...

The criterion "Existence of Savants, Prodigies, and Other Exceptional Individuals" highlights the presence of individuals with extraordinary abilities in specific cognitive doma...

This criterion posits that each type of intelligence must have a core set of cognitive processes or operations. For example, linguistic intelligence involves operations like the...

Each intelligence has its own unique developmental trajectory. This means that these intelligences emerge and develop at different stages and rates in an individual's life. For ...

Criterion of evolutionary history and plausibility suggests that each intelligence has evolved to solve specific problems faced by our ancestors. For example, spatial intelligen...

For an ability to be considered an intelligence in Theory of Multiple Intelligence framework, it must be supported by empirical research, particularly through experimental psych...

Gardner asserts that each intelligence should be measurable to some extent by psychometric tests. However, he also criticizes the overreliance on such tests in traditional intel...

This criterion means that each intelligence can be articulated and communicated through some form of symbolic system. For example, linguistic intelligence is expressed through l...