Question

For this task you will examine the experiments of Loftus and Gardner. Describe and analyze each of these experiments. You will prepare two separate analyses; for each analysis, include the following:

A brief summary of the study

A one paragraph explanation of   the background in the field leading up to the study, and the reasons the researchers carried out the project.

The significance of the study to the field of psychology

A brief discussion of supportive or contradictory follow-up research findings and subsequent questioning or criticism from others in the field  

A summary of at least one recent experiment (within the past two years) that is related to the seminal experiment (Hint: Excellent sources for recent research summaries are the American Psychological Association’s Monitor on Psychology and the Association for Psychological Science).

Your own evaluation of whether the breakthrough experiments of Drs. Gardner and Loftus were examples of genius, the zeitgeist, or some other factor. Use their own autobiographical accounts as well as your analyses of their experiments and personal stories to support your opinion.

Answer 1

Howard Earl Gardner is development psychologist of America. He is known for his multiple intelligence theory.

Elizabeth F. Loftus is the cognitive psychologist of America and known for his work in human memory and research on the malleability of the memory of humans.

According to Howard Gardner, there are eight types of intelligence.

They are like a language of thinking of people.

Types of intelligence are:

1. Language

2. Music

3. Reasoning, Maths, and logic

4. Kinesthetics of the body(physical)

5. Visual

6. Interpersonal

7. Interpersonal

8. Naturalist

concept of intelligence is better than classical IQ test because

Thinking pattern and perception vary from person to person. But IQ test consists the same pattern for every individual in order to identify intelligence.