• Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence: the capacity to control your body and handle objects skillfully.
• Interpersonal intelligence: the capacity to find and respond in the right way to the moods, motivations, and desires of other people.

Present approaches suggest that intelligence means having the capacity to:

Louis L. Thurstone (1887-1955) didn't approach intelligence as a single, general ability; his theory focused on seven different primary mental abilities:

Charles Spearman (British psychologist, 1863–1945) described a concept he referred to as general intelligence or the "g factor". He utilized the method named 'factor analysis' to investigate a few mental ability tests; his conclusion was that the results and scores on these tests were very simila...

• The term IQ was first formulated in the early 20th century by William Stern (a German psychologist).
• Psychologist Alfred Binet developed the first intelligence tests to help the French government identify kids who needed extra academic help.
• Although widely used, there con...