Original sentence: Intelligence has been defined in many ways: the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving.It can be described as the ability to perceive or infer information, and to retain it as knowledge to be applied towards adaptive behaviors within an environment or context.Most psychologists believe that intelligence can be divided into various domains or competencies.The term rose to prominence during the early 1900s
Edited sentence: According to American psychologist Howard Gardner, intelligence can be divided into multiple intelligences or intelligent performances.In the case of human intelligence, one can be intelligent in more than a single domain, take for example abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving.Intelligence differs from intellect, with the latter being measured in cognitive performance rather than behavior as a whole.Intelligence is the capacity or ability to acquire, apprehend and apply knowledge in a behavioral context.More generally, intelligence can be described as the capacity or ability to perceive or infer information, and to retain it as knowledge to be applied towards adaptive behaviors within an environment or context.Much of the above definition applies also to the intelligence of non-human animals.Similarly, intellect can be interpreted as an aggregate of intellects or intellectual performances.The term rose to prominence during the early 1900's, coinciding the emergence of behaviorism