Intelligence - 4 Flashcards
Define emotional intelligence
-The ability to perceive, understand and influence yours and others emotions
What is emotional intelligence primarily a form of?
-Social Intelligence
What was the model proposed by Salvoey and Mayer and what year?
- Ability EI
- 1990
What did the ABILITY MODEL define emotional intelligence as?
-The ability to accurately perceive emotions, to access and generate emotions so as to assist thought, to understand emotions and emotional knowledge, and to reflectively regulate emotions so as to promote emotional and intellectual growth
How is EI measured in ability model?
-A series of tasks designed to assess ability to perceive, identify, understand, and work with emotion
What are the 4 branches of EI?
- Perceiving Emotions
- Reasoning With Emotions
- Understanding Emotions
- Managing Emotions effectively
What is meant by perceiving emotions?
- ability to understand feelings in self and others
- correctly determining feelings such as fear
- being able to read facial expressions
What is meant by reasoning with emotions?
- Using emotions to promote thinking and reactivity
- Learning how to utilise happiness for creative process
- anticipating others emptions and reactions, leading to modification of ones own behaviour
What is meant by understanding emotions?
- interpret meaning from emotions
- identifying ability to comprehend emotional details
- such as learning that two emotions can blend into one emotion
- eg sadness loss and grief
What is meant by MANAGING EMOTIONS effectively?
- Focuses on ability to manage feelings in ourself and others
- regulating emotions and responding accordingly
- management of mood
What are criticisms of ability model
- Criticised to be more convenient way of re-describing a collection of traits than are currently measured in other ways by psychologists
- Not new
- Ability EI measures might be measuring personality in addition to general intelligence
- Problems with management and validity
- data based on self-report (responses could of been what they felt was socially acceptable)
- Tests knowledge of emotions but not necessarily the ability to perform tasks
How many Mixed models are there?
-2
What did Reuven Bar-On focus on?
-Developing Emotional Quotient to measure emotional and social competence
Why was the Bar-On Mixed model a land-mark achievement?
-First measure of EI published as a reliable & valid test
What were the 5 inter-related emotional and social competencies?
- Be aware of emotions, understand and express them
- Understand how others feel and interact with them
- To manage and control emotions
- To manage change, adapt to and solve personal/ interpersonal problems
- To generate positive affect to enhance self-motivation, in order to facilitate emotionally and socially intelligent behaviour.
What was Goleman’s Mixed Model?
- Combines abilities such as perceiving , assimilating, understanding and managing emotions but also motivation, non-ability dispositions and traits.
- Such as leadership, management and performance
What did Goleman view competencies as?
- As learned abilities
- Must be worked on and developed in order to develop best performance
What are 5 competencies in Golemans’s mixed model?
- Self awareness - knowing own emotions, strengths, recognises impact on others while using gut feelings
- Self regulation -controlling emotions and adapting to changing environment
- Social skills
- Empathy - others feelings
- Motivation
Where has Goleman’s model been subsequently used?
- Education sector
- To develop emotional well being of children
- SEL 5 (social and emotional learning 5)
What are benefits of SEL 5?
- better academic performance
- improves school climate
- increases students’ emotional intelligence and social skills
- decreases anxiety and depression
- Students are less likely to bully other students
- Students have better leadership skills and attention
- Teachers have better relationships with students, less -burnout, better relationships with admin, more positive about teaching
What is RULER?
- Is an evidence based approach for integrating social and emotional learning into school
- developed at Yale centre
What program do schools in UK use?
- PATHS
- Promoting alternative thinking Strategies
- designed to facilitate self-control, emotional awareness and problem solving skills
What is TRAIT model?
- an individual’s self-perceptions of their emotional abilities
- includes behavioral dispositions and self-perceived abilities
- Concerns emotion-related dispositions and self-perceptions
- measured via self-report
- Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire (TEIQue)
How does TRAIT differ from ABILITY?
-Distinct as ABILITY measured actual emotional ability, TRAIT measures self-perceptive ability
What are higher TRAIT scores associated with?
- higher extraversion, social competence and enhanced emotion regulation abilities
- lower risk for mental disorders, such as depression and anxiety
- more creative
- think and act more positively
