Multiple Intelligence Reflection

Psychologist Howard Gardner once said, “anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways [and] these multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences” (Howard Gardner Quotes). According to Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence Theory, each of us falls on a scale of the eight distinct intelligences: naturalist, intrapersonal, interpersonal, musical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, logical-mathematical and linguistic. However, psychologist Piaget suggested that we learn knowledge through our interactions with our environment and that children pass through four stages, each stage significantly contributing to their development (Feldman, 2016, LO 5.2). Additionally, the information processing theory effectively explains development as a three-system approach. After taking Gardner’s assessment, interpersonal and intrapersonal

I scored a 75% on intrapersonal and a 63% on interpersonal which I believe reflects my personality as a whole. According to Gardner, intrapersonal intelligence can be defined as the “knowledge of the internal aspects of oneself [and the] access to one’s own feelings and emotions” (Feldman, 2016, LO 8.4). I can relate this to myself because I often set goals for myself and reserve time for self-management and self-reflection. Piaget would say that my exposure with journaling when I was younger, contributed to my intrapersonal intelligence. I often used intuitive thought during my preoperational stage and would ask my mother questions about the world to gain a better understanding of the person that I was becoming (Feldman, 2016, LO 5.3). My mother always encouraged me to observe my feelings and to be aware, therefore, as a grew up, those traits never left me. I am a very independent person which allows me to dedicate my alone time to observing my negative feelings and thoughts and then acting upon them to make a