Emotional Intelligence2 txt Flashcards
what are the two moral stances that EI calls for?
Self-restrain and empathy.
Is emotional intelligence innate?
No, it isn’t, can be taught to children.
What is the analogy between EI and quantum physics?
Bringing cognizance to the realm of the feeling can have the same effect that the observer in this field, the observer can change change the matter observed
Why IE is an expanded model?
Because puts emotions at the center of aptitudes for living
We have a brain that has been forged during 50.000 years that would be not adequate for the event of the last 500, true or false?
True. We always confront postmodern dilemmas with a emotional repertoire that was created in the Pleistocene
¿Qué dos partes del cerebro está en el centro de la inteligencia emocional?
La amígdada (emociones) y el neocortex (pensamiento y raciocinio) y su interacción.
de donde viene la palabra emoción
motere mover y el prefijo e quiere decir mover fuera, es decir, llevar a cabo una acción.
What do we understand by ‘Precognitive emotion’
A reaction based on neural bits and pieces of sensory information that have not been fully sorted out and integrated into a recognizable object.
What is the split between IQ related and not IQ related elements concerning success
20% are IQ related elements vs. 80% are not IQ related elements such as luck, social class, emotion management.
What is the psychiatric nomenclature for being a constant worrier
Generalized anxiety disorder
What are the typical lines of worriness?
A narrative to oneself that jumps from concern to concern and more often than not includes catastrophizing. Worries are always expressed in the mind’s ear not in its eye, that is to say words, not images, a fact that has significance for controlling worry.
What are the two forms of anxiety?
Cognitive, or worrisome thoughts, and somatic, the physiological symptoms of anxiety, such as sweating, a racing heart, or muscle tension.
What is the function of worrying?
Rehearse what our dangers can be, and to reflect on ways to deal with them. However, new solutions and fresh ways of seeing a problem to nbot typically come from worrying, especially chronic worrying.
What is the content of worries ruminage?
Normally they ruminate on the danger itself?
The statetement ‘worry habit is reinforcing in the same sense that superstitions are’ is true or false
True. Like an amulet that wards off some anticipated evil, the worry psychologically gets the credit for preventing the danger that obsesses about.
What is another reason why chronic worryness is self-defeating (contraproducente)?
it take the form of stereotyped, rigid ideas that come to mind over and over. At a neurological level seems to be a cortical rigidity, a deficit in the emotional brain’s ability to respond flexibly to changing circumstances.
What is the first step to avoid worrying?
Self-awareness, identify situations that trigger worry and actively challenge the worrisome thoughts. We have to make ourselves questions such as
. Is is necessarily the case that there is only one or no alternative to letting it happen?
. Does it really help to run through these same anxious thoughts over and over?
When a worry is allowed to repeat over and over unchallenged, it gains in persuasive power
What is the solution to worrying?
The combination between mindfulness and healthy skepticism would act as a brake on the neural activation that underlies low_grade anxiety
What is the function of melancholy?
Short, it enforces a kind of reflective retreat from life’s busy pursuits and leaves us in a suspended state to mourn the loss, mull over its meaning, and, finally, make the psychological adjustment and new plans that will allow our lives to continue.
How can be named melancholy some times?
subclinical depression
What is one of the elements that can make that a depression persists?
whether a depressed mood will persist or lift is the degree to which people ruminate.
Is always helpful to reflect (pensar) in the causes of depression?
It depends. In Therapy it might be perfectly helpful to reflect deeply on the causes of depression if that leads to insights or actions that will change the conditions that cause it. But a passive immersion in the sadness simply makes it worse.
Why are women diagnosed with depression twice as often as are men?
They are more open to disclosing their distress. Men tend to drink to cope with this situation and this is why they are diagnosed twice with alcoholism in comparison with women.
What is one of the more effective tactics to deal with depression?
Aerobic exercise
What exercise is good to deal with depression?
It pitches the body into high arousal. By the same token, relaxation techniques, which put the body into a low_arousal state work well for anxiety, but no so well for depression.
What is a very successful way to deal with depression? shoppingin women and eating or drinking in men are not good ways
1) Engineering a small triumph or easy success.
Tackling some long_delayed chore around the house or getting to some other duty we have been wanting to clear up.
2) Seeing things differently or cognitive refraining. Cancer patients that are not dying can feel better it they compare with some other more serious cancer patients but they will feel worse if they compare with health people.
3) Help others in need as this stops rumination
What is what cognitive scientist call working memory?
The ability to hold in mind all information relevant to the task at hand.
When the limbic system and the prefontal cortex are affected by distress what do we experince?
Problems in our working memory.
What is what makes the difference between normal performers and those at the very top of competitive pursuits?
Enthusiasm and persistence in the face of setbacks.
Asian children study more than rest of american children as their parents are not so willing to accept a childs weak area and emphasize the strengths. In their case, if they do not do well, their parents ask them to study at night.
Cultural work ethic translates into higher motivation, zeal and persistence?
Yes, asias study more as their parents are not willing to accept o easily that they are not gifted for a given academic subject.
Why emotional intelligence is a master aptitude?
Because is profoundly affects all other abilities either facilitating or interfering with them
What is the Marshmallow test
If you wait for me to come back you can eat two madalenas if not you can eat one, and it can be now, right now.
What is the more fundamental psychological skill?
Resisting impulse. It is the root of all emotional self_control, since all emotions by their very nature, lead to one or another impulse to act (emotion, movere, to act)