Critics of Gardner's theory point out that
A) the unusual skills of people with savant syndrome are mechanical and inflexible because those skills are not aided by other abilities.
B) Gardner ignores the role of cultural and educational experiences in intellectual development.
C) the theory is at odds with the existence of prodigies who show precocious development in only one area.
D) his intelligences are only weakly correlated with a single overarching mental ability.
A
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