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Aptitude is defined as the talent to excel at an array of tasks. Throughout time there have been many who studied intelligence but the main two models of intelligence is Spearman's Model of Intelligence and Gardner's Multiple Intelligences. Both theories propose that people should be evaluated on the source of factors other than scores on ordinary intelligence tests. To just view though scores would cause people to overlook a person other strengths.

Spearman's Model of Intelligence
Charles Spearman was a British psychologist who believed in two types of intelligence. The "g", which stands for general intelligence and the "s", stands for a number of specific abilities. The theory was that if a person excelled on one mental ability test often did well on other tests and if a person tested poorly they tended to do poorly on other tests. Using this theory he developed a technique of statistical analysis that examined examples of individual differences in test scores.......

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