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Definition
Howard Gardner is an American developmental psychologist best known for his theory of multiple intelligences. He proposed that people have different types of intelligences rather than one general intelligence.
Related terms
Multiple Intelligences Theory: A model proposed by Howard Gardner suggesting that human intelligence can be divided into eight distinct types such as linguistic, logical-mathematical etc.