Intelligence

Many people would agree that there are usually two types of students, a math science type of guy, and then an english history person. The math and science guy is usually one who is better at logic problems and arithmetic problems and someone who is a stronger english history person is usually better at memorization, writing and will usually have a larger vocabulary. Many have dubbed the first type of person a street smart person and the second someone who is book smart. Another way to classify these two types of intelligence are the ability to learn new facts, history/english, and the ability to apply knowledge to a subject, math/science. This past week we discussed multiple types of THEORIES (please see my past post) about intelligence the second multiple theory addresses these types of students, Robert Sternberg- Triarchic theory of intelligence. He split up multiple types of intelligence into three separate categories that do not effect each other analytical, creative, and practical intelligence. Analytical intelligence is split up into three further categories knowledge acquisition, performance components, and metacognative components. A history/english student would achieve high knowledge accusation scores. A science/math student would probably achieve higher performance components scores.