IQ Categories

According to Howard Gardner, Ph.D., intelligence equals the ability to resolve genuine problems or difficulties and also the ability to find or create problems. This becomes the foundation of learning.

Dr. Gardner has discovered that every individual has an "intellectual profile"; each person has specific talents. Because of this, he has divided human intelligence into 8 basic categories:

1. Linguistic ? speaking and writing ability, including proper grammar in one?s own language and also ease with foreign languages.

2. Musical ? ability to recognize and use pitch, tone and rhythm.

3. Logical-Mathematical ? ability to handle long strings of reasoning, long calculations and can understand and manipulate abstractions.

4. Spatial ? ability to recognize and mentally manipulate shapes and to move objects, create mental images and to visually perceive the visual world.

5. Bodily-Kinesthetic ? an intelligence rooted in body movements; having extremely good coordination, reflexes and skill with moving objects.

6. Interpersonal ? ability to "read" other people well.

7. Personal ? deep knowledge of one?s own self. Acutely tuned to own emotions and uses this to understand own emotions and behavior.

8. Naturalistic ? ability to apply knowledge of the natural world to solving problems.