Task 2 Flashcards
Mental abilities
the capacity to solve problems that demand thinking-related skills
o defined by the quality of following mental processes: reasoning understanding, imaging and remembering
Fluid ability
ability to response flexible to a new situation
Crystallized abilities
ability to use well-learned skills or knowledge
o Not always supported empirically
Four branch model (Salovey&Mayer)
Four related abilities:
• Perceiving: detect and discriminate emotions in faces, pictures or voices as well as identify one’s won emotions (original)
• Using: Facilitate various cognitive activities such as thinking and problem solving (good mood facilitates creativity, bad mood structured working)
• Understanding: ability to comprehend emotion language and to appreciate complicated relationships among emotions (original)
• managing emotions: regulating emotions in ourselves and others
Thinking accurately about emotions
Correlates slightly to mental abilities and personality but has some unique aspects
Ability to regulate one’s own emotions (Goleman)
Includes self-control, self-confidence, trustworthiness, empathy, optimism, achievement orientation, conflict management, teamwork and awareness of one’s emotion
Correlates strongly with personality (basically describes the same)
Novel test
Test such as puzzles or riddles for which you cant really prepare (fluid ability)
Familiar test:
Test for which you can prepare (e.g. school tests) (crystallized ability)
EQ and life satisfaction
researcher found that emotional intelligence is only a weak predictor of life satisfaction
Academic Achievement and performance (IQ)
o Factors that influence school grades such as afford, behave good, making nice presentations don’t have much to do with academical achievement o Academic tests do cover different kinds of Factors of mental ability, e.g. working with numbers and texts, this might be a reason for the correlation between both o Correlations is higher in lower academic levels such es elementary school compared to university , This might be due two less variation in IQ between the children/adults in class university because lo level IQ dropped out
Job performance (IQ)
Higher mental abilities lead to faster learning of rules, better decision making and advanced problem solving
Simple cognitive jobs .20 correlation, cognitive demanding jobs .50
Occupational achievement (IQ)
correlation .40 - .30 (moderate)
Might arise through the social status of the family if it is already good they have better education and get better jobs
Longevity and Health (IQ)
o Mental abilities are correlated with longevity even when they came from different social classes
o Related to behaviours that influence health (greater likelihood of identifying illnesses/seeing a doctor more often
Criminality
o Significant links between criminality and mental ability
o People with high IQ tend to choose, if they do, crimes with higher pay off and lower probability of arrest
o People wit lower IQ have higher fearlessness and they overestimate the pay off
Spearman and the g-factor
o Found correlations in school children’s grade between different subjects
o Performance of each task is influenced by a general mental ability (g stands for general intelligence)
o General Intelligence: is involved even in tasks that appear to be very different from each other
G-loadings (g-factor theory)
the loading of the various tasks on the g-factor
The principle of the indifference of the indicator: the content of the task (the indicator) was unimportant in determining whether the task would show a high g-loading or a low g-loading
It is about the kind of mental processing involved in the task
Low g-loading: rather easy tasks, spelling words, calculation of numbers or simple comparisons
High g-loading: the deuction of relations and correlates