Emotional Intelligence

Question 1

What are the abilities called emotional intelligence?

Answer 1

• Self control
• Zeal (enthusiasm)
• Persistence
• Ability to motivate oneself

Question 2

What is the base of will and character?

Answer 2

The abilitiy to control impulse

Question 3

What is empathy?

Answer 3

The ability to read emotions in others?

Question 4

What is the end of emotional inteligence?

Answer 4

To bring intelligence to emotion

Question 5

What were the first attempts to harness, subdue, and domesticate emotional life?

Answer 5

• Code Hammurabi
• Ten commandments of the Hebrews
• The Edicts of the Emperor Ashoka

Question 6

Research has shown that emotional intelligence has a positive impact on successful leadership and organizational performance. True or false?

Answer 6

True (Goleman, 2002)

Question 7

What is the origin of the work emotion?

Answer 7

• Movere: Move
• prefix e: move away

This clearly means that emotion means go to action.

Question 8

Can the amygdala house a full range of responses of which we are not fully aware?

Answer 8

Yes, our emotions have a mind of their own, one which can hold views quite independently of our rational mind.

Question 9

Where are our unconscious opinions stores?

Answer 9

In the amygdala

Question 10

Where are the perceptual informations stores in the brain and where the emotions?

Answer 10

Emotions seem to be stored in the amygdala as they have a preeminence and are more speedy.

Hippocampus seems to store the information which is more perceptual.

The brain has two memory systems, ordinary facts and one for emotionally charged ones.

Question 11

What is the shorcome of the fast information send by amygdala?

Answer 11

It is an out-of-date (desfasada) response as now humans are not facing life-threatening scenarios as opposite to the past. It is an associative system that is not correct for current times.

Question 12

What is another element that adds to the fact that the emotional brain is not precise?

Answer 12

That the vast majority of our emotional memories are build on the first few years of life. the amygdala, is much closer to fully formed at birth as opposite to hyppocampus. The tener (postulado) of the psychoanalisis that the interactions of life’s earliest years lay down a set of emotinoal lessons is based in this.