A fourth-grade teacher says, "All of my students have strengths in certain areas. For example, some of them are really good at solving math problems. Others are really fast readers. Still others have a marvelous ability to make connections among seemingly very different ideas. And a couple of them are ‘walking encyclopedias’ of facts about the world." With which one of the following theoretical perspectives is the teacher’s statement most consistent?

a. Distributed intelligence
b. Gardner's multiple intelligences
c. Spearman's general factor in intelligence
d. The Cattell-Horn-Carroll theory of cognitive abilities