emotional intelligence test Flashcards
an area or range of personal distinctions characterized by specific qualities.
domain
that part of the consciousness that involves feeling and the capacity to detect and respond to sensory stimuli.
emotion
the capacity in our lives that enables us to correctly experience and use feelings and sensibility.
emotional strengths
the totality of surrounding things, conditions, or influences.
environment
non-rational, internal sensation not connected with sight, hearing taste, smell, or what is classically correlated to touch.
feeling
responsiveness or susceptibility to sensory stimuli.
sensibility
qualities or features that bring power, force, vigor, or sustenance.
strengths
- 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 Godβs plan (will) for our life is β His good, pleasing, perfect will.
- What are the two core desires that an individual seeks?
a. To be appreciated
b. To have a sense of significance
- The ability to read, write, understand, and express yourself is being ____
literate
American culture, Biblical literacy was high from its founding in the late 1400s until when?
1950
- What became the primary literacy in American culture 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 philosophy, created in just this century?
no
- What is the secular humanistic philosophy described in the Bible as fulfillment of oneβs emotional desires and feelings as the focus of life
epicurean
- What is the secular humanistic philosophy described in the Bible as fulfillment of oneβs 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 Masterβs Degrees and PHdβs) 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:
a. Anger β Opiates, Pain Medication, Marijuana
b. Anxiety (Worry/Fear) - Alcohol
c. Depression β Narcotics (Cocaine)
- 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 βFor the last thirty or forty years weβve 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, itβs just a temporary defeat.β
martin Seligman
- Explain how the scriptural concept of βhopeβ is illustrated in the studies given on the success optimistic individuals experience in life.
a. Through our study of scripture we have learned how to βconsider it pure joy when we face trialsβ 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?
a. Self-awareness
b. Self-management