psychology of cancer- emotional intelligence

Question 1

What is emotion?

Answer 1

• Emotion are episode influences by stimuli
• part of our homeostatic response
• an episode of interrelated, synchronized changes in the state of all or most of the five organismic subsystems in response to the evaluation of an external or internal stimulus

Question 2

What is intelligence?

Answer 2

• the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills
• the ability to think and learn in both the real and the abstract
• mental ability that concerns the handling and reasoning of information

Question 3

What is the evolutionary origin of emotion?

Answer 3

-response to stimulus
- fight or flight response
- ex. Joy from an ancestral perspective. A food they find brings them joy, so look for it more.
- ex. Surprise. If there is a predator in an area, this would be surprising and they would want to avoid that area in the future

Question 4

What is emotional intelligence?

Answer 4

• the ability to monitor one’s own and others’ emotions to discriminate among them
• and, to use the information to guide one’s thinking and actions
• this capacity to process information is thus (potentially) considered a cognitive aptitude

Question 5

Why is emotional intelligence important to understanding ‘self?’

Answer 5

Understand what you are feeling and why you are feeling it
Processing your emotions
Being able to understand how things make you feel and make you learn about your learn. Allows you to gain more perspectives on self, other, surrounding, etc

Question 6

Why is emotional intelligence important to social interaction? That is, how is emotional intelligence connected to concepts from social psychology?**

Answer 6

Fundamental attribution error: being able to understand others emotions
Being able to interpret and understand others feelings and emotions
Presence of authority
Bystander effect: someone observes a stimulus; they feel it is not their problem
Group think
Mass hysteria
Where do our emotions come into play
WHEN U DO THESE PLS CONNECT TO ALL SOCIAL PSYCH CONCEPTS

Question 7

What is a stimulus

Answer 7

• a thing or event that evokes a specific functional reaction in an organ or tissue.