The theory of multiple intelligences differentiates human intelligence into specific modalities rather than seeing it as dominated by a single general ability. Who among the following developed the theory of multiple intelligences?
AAlfred Binet
BL. Thurstone
CCharles Spearman
DHoward Gardner ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) Howard Gardner
Explanation
Howard Gardner developed the theory of multiple intelligences, differentiating intelligence into distinct modalities.
Gardner set it out in his 1983 book Frames of Mind, rejecting a single general ability.
His original set included linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal and intrapersonal, later adding naturalistic.
Alfred Binet built the first practical intelligence test, not the multiple-intelligences theory.
L. Thurstone proposed primary mental abilities, a different multifactor view.
Charles Spearman argued for a general factor g, the very view Gardner opposed.
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