Emotional Intelligence Flashcards
TERMS: Domain
an area or range of personal distinctions characterized by specific qualities
TERMS: Emotion
that part of the consciousness thay involves feelingand the capacity to detect and resond to sensory stimuli
TERMS: Emotional Strengths
the capacity in our lives that enables us to correctly experience and use feelings and sensibilty
TERMS: Environment
the totality of surrounding things, conditions, or influences
TERMS: Feeling
non-rational, internal sensation not connected with sight, hearing, taste, smell, or what is classically correlated to touch
TERMS: Sensibility
responsivness or susceptibility to sensory stimuli
TERMS: Strengths
qualities or features that bring power, force, vigor, or substenance
What does Psalm 37:4 teach us about our emotions?
That emotions (desires) are a natural part of us and that God wants them to be fulfilled
What does Romans 12:1-3 teach us about the relationship between emotions and the mind?
That the pattern of this world is designed to fulfill our I-Centered desires. It teaches us that we are to renew (change) our mind and focus upon what God’s plan (will) for our life is - His good, pleasing, perfect will.
What are the 2 core values that an individual seeks?
- To be appreciated
2. To have a sense of significance
The ability to read, write, understand, and express yourself is being…..?
literate
In American culture, Biblical literacy was high from its founding in the late 1400s until when?
1950s
What became the primary literacy in American from the 1950s until our present day?
Secular Humanism
What was the primary reason for this shift?
The implementation of secular humanism in government schools (as proposed by the Humanist Manifesto of 1933 and spearheaded by John Dewey, the American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform.
Is secular humanism a new philosphy, create in just this century?
no
What is the secular humanistic philosophy described in the Bible as fulfillment of one’s emotional desires and feelings as the focus of life?
Epicurean
What is the secular humanistic philosophy described in the Bible as fulfillment of one’s logical mind with structure and order as the focus of life?
stoic
What author stated that his grandparents Biblical literacy, (even though they were modest and simple in economic ways), enable them to discuss matters of deep meaning at a level higher his cousins (who all held Master’s Degrees and PHd’s) who lived with the world of humanistic literacy.
Allan Bloom in Closing of the American Mind
What addictions are found in emotionally unhealthy people, that suffer from:
Anger, Anxiety, Depression
Anger: opiates
Anxiety: alcohol
Depression: Narcotics
What University of Pennsylvania psychologist observed that the change in literacy from the Bible to humanism has led to depression as the cost of modernism? He was quoted in 1994 as saying “For the last thirty or forty years we’ve seen the ascendance of individualism and a waning of larger beliefs in religion, and in supports from the community and extended family. That means a loss of resources that can buffer you against setbacks and failures. To the extent you see a failure as something that is lasting and which you magnify to taint everything in your life, you are prone to let a momentary defeat become a lasting source of hopelessness. But if you have a larger perspective, like a belief in God and an afterlife, and you lose your job, it’s just a temporary defeat.”
Martin Seligman
Explain how the scriptural concept of “hope” is illustrated in the studies given on the success optimistic individuals experience in life.
Through our study of scripture we have learned how to “consider it pure joy when we face trials” because we know that it only when we persevere through our trials that we can build our character and mature. This process gives us hope whenever we face future trials.
Individuals with intrapersonal emotional skills will be able to display which two emotional strengths?
Self-awareness
Self-management
Individuals with interpersonal emotional skills will be able to display which two emotional strengths?
Social-awareness
Relationship-management
Who is the individual who did a study on the differences in how optimistic and pessimistic individuals respond to failure?
Martin Segliman
What is the interpersonal manner an optimistic person will respond to failure?
View the situation as something that can be changed