Examples of the Availability Heuristic. 1  After seeing news reports about people losing their jobs, you might start to believe that you are in danger of being layed-off. 2  After seeing several television programs on shark attacks, you start to think that such incidences are relatively common.
Overview of Sternberg's Triarchic Theory of Intelligence. Sternberg's Triarchic Theory of Human Intelligence (1977, 1985, 1995) subsumes both Spearmans g and underlying information processing components. Sternberg's theory builds on his earlier componential approach to reasoning. His theory is mostly based on observing Yale graduate students.
Multiple Intelligences. Howard Gardner of Harvard has identified seven distinct intelligences. This theory has emerged from recent cognitive research and documents the extent to which students possess different kinds of minds and therefore learn, remember, perform, and understand in different ways, according to Gardner (1991).