CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -savant syndrome, rare condition wherein a person of less than normal intelligence or severely limited emotional range has prodigious intellectual gifts in a specific area. Mathematical, musical, artistic, and mechanical abilities have been among the talents demonstrated by savants.

Detailed explanation-2: -The most common savant abilities are called splinter skills. These include behaviors such as obsessive preoccupation with, and memorization of, music and sports trivia, license plate numbers, maps, historical facts, or obscure items such as vacuum cleaner motor sounds, for example.

Detailed explanation-3: -Correct. The existence of savant syndrome seems to support Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences. Gardner argues that we do not have an intelligence, but rather multiple intelligences.

Detailed explanation-4: -British psychologist Charles Spearman believed intelligence consisted of one general factor, called g, which could be measured and compared among individuals. Spearman focused on the commonalities among various intellectual abilities and demphasized what made each unique.

Detailed explanation-5: -memory and cognitive processes dedicated to a specific ability. It is concluded that savant skills are not intelligent and that Gardner’s (1983) theory of multiple intelligences fails by overstating the rele-vance of savant skills and because it disregards clear psychometric evidence for a general factor.