Discussion
Who among the following critiqued the concept of 'general' intelligence and proposed an alternative theory of intelligence ?
Answer: B
It was Howard Gardner.
In Frames of Mind (1983) Gardner rejected the idea of a single general intelligence measured by IQ tests and proposed the theory of multiple intelligences: linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, musical, bodily-kinaesthetic, interpersonal and intrapersonal, with naturalistic added later.
Charles Spearman is the psychologist who proposed general intelligence, the 'g' factor, so he is the one Gardner criticised. Piaget studied the development of thinking in stages and Vygotsky its social origins; neither offered an alternative to 'g' as a theory of intelligence.
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