American developmental psychologist who proposed the theory of multiple intelligences — that intelligence is not a single general faculty but a set of distinct capacities (linguistic, musical, logical-mathematical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal).
Frames of Mind (1983): multiple intelligences — challenging the g-factor view of intelligence and arguing that IQ tests measure only a narrow linguistic-logical ability. The theory has been enormously influential in education despite limited empirical validation.
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