Intelligences Chapter 1

This first chapter describes the concept of the eight different intelligences and briefly describes each one. The eight intelligences are: Linguistic, Logical/Mathematical, Spatial, Bodily/Kinesthetic, Musical, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, and Naturalistic. Each person possesses all eight intelligences, but are usually only skillful at one or two of them. All of the intelligences work together and there are many different ways to be considered intelligent in each category.

Most of us have heard about the intelligence theory before this class, but did not know very much about its detail of the theory itself and the different intelligences. We each reflected back on the activity we did during class and were very interested to find out more about ourselves and how we use and interpret our different intelligences. The forced choice part also made us realize what we really would prefer to do if we ever had to make such a choice.