ABSTRACT
Intelligence, in a word, reflects a micro-culture of praxis: the reference books one uses, the notes one habitually takes. Howard Gardner has proposed what has become a very popular model that he calls 'Multiple Intelligences', and, as people shall see, school districts from around the country have jumped at the chance to put his ideas into action. Spearman maintained that there is something called general intelligence, which is a basic capacity affecting all mental tasks. Thurstone's point was that a distribution of scores from different tests of mental ability could also be analyzed in ways that showed that they gathered around a number of distinct centers, with each center measuring a particular cognitive ability. According to Feuerstein, cognitive development is dependent on direct intervention over time that teaches the mental processes necessary for learning how to learn. These interventions are sometimes called mediated learning experiences.
