... prove Intelligence as 'single ability' in a child, i.e. a single general intelligence permeating a child's individual differences. (Smith, 2003). The essay will look, in particular, at Howard Gardner's (1984/98) work into multiple intelligence as an argument against a single ability. Psychologists also argued that the nature of intelligence was innate supporting the nature aspect of the continuing nature-nurture debate. The second part of the study would look at both these issues evaluating whether intelligence is an innate and single ability to a child. Part 1 Intelligence is a word used extensively by society as a whole both past and present, where people had different notions of what intelligence is historically compared to nowadays. Even now, Intelligence means different things to different people and some psychologists cannot agree (Richardson, 1995). Sternberg & Detterman (1986) surveyed psychologists on what they thought the definition is. Learning and adaptive abilities, metacognition, or the ability to understand ...

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