Question

Ashwat is amazed to learn about his sister Ananya who is multi-talented and has excelled in academics, music, dancing, sports and painting. He was quite curious when Ananya told him that he too possessed all these intelligences like every human being does, but only at different levels. He wondered which intelligence she was talking about. Can you help Ashwat in learning about different types of intelligences by naming and explaining any four types of intelligences?

Answer 1

All humans possess 9 types of intelligence but at different levels. 

They are: 

1. Mathematical Logical Reasoning: ability to regulate, measure, and understand numerical symbols, abstraction and logic. 

2. Linguistic Intelligence: Language processing skills both in terms of understanding or implementation in writing or verbally. 

3. Spatial Visual Intelligence : ability to perceive the visual world and the relationship of one object to another. 

4. Kinesthetic Intelligence : ability that is related to how a person uses his limbs in a skilled manner. 

5. Musical Intelligence : ability to recognize and create sounds, rhythms, and sound patterns. 

6. Intrapersonal Intelligence : Describes how high the level of self -awareness someone has is. Starting from realizing weakness, strength, to his own feelings. 

7. Existential Intelligence : An additional category of intelligence relating to religious and spiritual awareness. 

8. Naturalist Intelligence : An additional category of intelligence relating to the ability to process information on the environment around us. 

9. Interpersonal intelligence : ability to communicate with others by understanding other people's feelings & influence of the person.