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4 Branches of Emotional Intelligence

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  • Perceiving Emotion
  • Facilitating thought with emotion
  • Understanding emotions
  • Managing emotions
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EI: Perceiving Emotion

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Identify emotions on the basis of perceptual cues.

Eg. Noticing a frown on friends face when you mention the name of someone –> jealously

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EI: Facilitating thought with emotion

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Harness emotional information to enhance thinking

Eg. Changing a comment to a friend to avoid a rocky outcome

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EI: Understanding Emotion

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Comprehend emotional information about relationships, transitions from one emotion to another, and verbal information about emotions.
Eg. Understanding a friend is jealous bc of your past relationship with someone

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EI: Manage Emotions

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Ability to manage emotions and emotional relationships

Eg. Take deep breaths bc you realise you are becoming annoyed

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x4 problems of intellectual functioning

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  • Genetic abnormalities ( Downs Syndrome, Fragile X, Autism)
  • Problems during pregnancy (alcohol, drugs, malnutration, maternal infection HIV)
  • Problems at birth (prematurity, low birth weight)
  • Problems after birth (poisons, physical trauma, childhood diseases)
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1st Intelligence Test

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  • Binet-Simon test
  • test many normal children at each stage
  • compare individuals score to normal score
  • specified what level of performance should be expected of the average child at any given age
  • Binet didnt think intelligence was a fixed quantity and could be increased by education
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Intelligence Test history

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Terman

  • Stanford-Binet test
  • ages 2-adult
  • American Version

Wechsler

  • Wechsler adult intelligence scale (WAIS)
  • Wechsler intelligence scale for children (WISC)
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IQ

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Intelligence Quotient = mental age / actual age x 100

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Distribution of IQ

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-95% of individuals would score between 70 & 130

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General Intelligence (g)

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  • Spearman

- a single underlying factor which accounts for intercorrelation of peoples abilities on various types of tests

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Fluid Intelligence

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ability to solve novel problems, deal with novel situations (cattell & horn)

  • peaks early adulthood
  • effeced by drugs and alcohol
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Crystallised intelligence

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Use previous, learning and experience to deal with future, similar situations
-can continute to rise with age

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Howard Gardner Intelligences

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(x9)
Spacial, linguistic, musical, logical-mathmatical, bodily-kinesthic, intrapersonal, interpersonal, naturalist, existential Intelligence

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Robert Sternberg Intelligences (name and describe)

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Analytic (ability to learn to write clearly, do mathematics, understand literature - critical for academic performance)

Practical ((knowing how to do things like fix a car, sew on a button, sometimes relies on on implicit memories, learned responses and skills that guide our actions without being aware of them - street smarts

Creative (ability to formulate novel solutions to problems - relates to fluid intelligence)

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Heritability

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  • Percentage of population variability that can be accounted for by differences in peoples genetics
  • between 0.4 and 0.7
  • POPULATIONS not individuals
  • not fixed, environment and gene pool can change it
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Flynn effect

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Average IQ increases 3 points every 10 years

  • daily life more challenging
  • nutrition is better
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x2 Educational Programmes and IQ

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Head Start:

  • additional intellectual stimulation for disadvantaged children
  • short term IQ gains
  • most gains evaporate over time

Abecedarian Project:

  • Intensive intellictual enrichment (paediatric care, nutritional supplements, support from social workers)
  • For children at risk of failing school
  • 6-8 hours a day, 5 days/week, 5 years
  • by age of 15 children had higher IQ
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Characteristics of Creative People (x11)

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  • divergent thinking
  • select among possible options effectively
  • keep options open
  • dont make snap decisions
  • see problem from new vantage point
  • are flexible and able reorganise information
  • high intelligence
  • wide interests
  • dont like traditional dogma
  • work hard
  • highly motivated, and persistent
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Enhancing Creativity (Sternberg) x9

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  • redefine problems
  • analyse your own ideas
  • sell your ideas
  • surmont absticales
  • take sensible risks
  • be willing to grow
  • believe in your self
  • tolerate ambiguity
  • find what you love and do it
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x2 stages of Creativity

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  1. Generate various possible solutions

2. Select among them

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