The 12 Types of Intelligence (and Counting)

Howard Gardner in his famous Frames of Mind, the Theory of Multiple Intelligences (1983) identifies seven main modes of learning as (1) linguistic, (2) logical-mathematical, (3) bodily kinesthetic, (4) spatial-visual, (5) musical, (6) interpersonal, and (7) intrapersonal.

Rather than eight intelligences, Sternberg’s model proposes three: analytical, creative, and practical.

Psychologists have traditionally described personality in terms of what they call the Five Factor Model – five dimensions that are usually labelled Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion/Introversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism, or OCEAN for short.