NO! We may have preferences, but there is clear evidence that catering to supposed learning styles does not aid learning and is actually harmful to students. In other words, you may believe that you learn better through visual methods than auditory ones, but research has shown that our brains don't work that way!

An individual's ability to:

learn and understand complex problems

use what has been learned to solve future problems

adapt to new problems in the environment through complex reasoning

• Work on intelligence came from stats

• g factor: helps explain intellectual abilities across the board, use g factor to predict how we'll perform other tasks

• Core ability that helps influence others

• Has argued against learning styles

• Should go away with learning styles and multiple intelligence, but doesn't mean differentiating instruction is bad

• His theory of multiple intelligence included 8 intelligences

  1. Linguistic

  2. Musical

  3. Spacial

  4. Logical-mathematical

  5. Bodily-kinesthetic

  6. Interpersonal

  7. Intrapersonal

  8. Naturalist

• Has NOT received wide acceptance in the scientific community

• Argues that understanding of yourself and others is a distinct form of intelligence.

• Suggests to have greater career success with higher emotional intelligence.

• Four core aspects

1. Perceiving Emotions: Recognizing emotions in other people and in art.

2. Understanding Emotions: Predicting how someone may feel.

3. Managing Emotions: Understanding how to appropriately express emotions.

4. Using Emotions: harnessing emotion to support creativity or abstract reasoning.