Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences Theory: Are There Really Multiple Intelligences?
Few theories of intelligence have travelled as far beyond psychology as Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences Theory.
Intrinsic vs Extraneous Cognitive Load Explained
The useful question in cognitive load theory is not "How do we make learning easy?" but "Which difficulty belongs to the learning, and which difficulty did we accidentally create?"
Network Theories of Intelligence: Can Intelligence Emerge From Connected Knowledge and Skills?
Intelligence is usually measured by giving people tasks and studying the pattern among their scores. But the mind doing those tasks is not a collection of test scores.
What Is Cognitive Load?
A task does not carry a fixed amount of cognitive load. The same information can overwhelm a novice and feel effortless to an expert.
Mutualism Theory of Intelligence: Can Cognitive Abilities Make Each Other Stronger?
Most explanations of the positive manifold begin with a pattern that already exists: cognitive abilities are correlated, so what common influence might be producing the correlations?
What Is a Cognitive Weakness?
The lowest score in a cognitive profile is not automatically a weakness---and a weakness is not automatically an impairment.
Process Overlap Theory: Does g Reflect Overlapping Cognitive Processes?
A general factor can describe what cognitive tests have in common. But description leaves a harder question untouched: **what creates that commonality?
What Is a Cognitive Strength?
The phrase "cognitive strength" sounds straightforward until you ask: strong compared with whom?
PASS Theory of Intelligence: What Is the PASS Model?
PASS reframes intelligence around four kinds of cognitive processing—Planning, Attention, Simultaneous and Successive—rather than beginning with a single IQ factor.
Why Do Cognitive Abilities Correlate?
Psychology discovered a remarkably durable pattern more than a century ago. It still has not settled what causes it.