CONCEPT 1: Intelligence Summary Woolfolk discusses the idea of intelligence on page's 124-25 of our text as "one or more of three themes: The capacity to learn, the total knowledge a person has acquired, and the ability to adapt successfully to new situations and the environment in general." Woolfolk continues wanting us to "notice how even these early definitions signal that intelligence can be increased, because it includes the total knowledge (a person) has acquired" Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligence dictates that there are "at least eight separate forms of intelligence" which we can examine on page 126 of the text. "The eight intelligence's are: linguistic (verbal), musical, spatial, logical-mathematical, bodily-kinesthetic (movement), interpersonal (understanding others), intrapersonal (understanding self), and naturalist (observing and understanding natural and human-made patterns and systems)" G...