[Week 10] Emotional Intelligence

Question 1

Ability model

Answer 1

An approach that views EI as a standard intelligence that utilizes a distinct set of mental abilities that (1) are intercorrelated, (2) relate to other extant intelligences, and (3) develop with age and experience (Mayer & Salovey, 1997).

Question 2

Emotional intelligence

Answer 2

The ability to monitor one’s own and others’ feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one’s thinking and actions. (Salovey & Mayer, 1990). EI includes four specific abilities: perceiving, using, understanding, and managing emotions.

Question 3

Four-Branch Model

Answer 3

An ability model developed by Drs. Peter Salovey and John Mayer that includes four main components of EI, arranged in hierarchical order, beginning with basic psychological processes and advancing to integrative psychological processes. The branches are (1) perception of emotion, (2) use of emotion to facilitate thinking, (3) understanding emotion, and (4) management of emotion.

Question 4

Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT)

Answer 4

A 141-item performance assessment of EI that measures the four emotion abilities (as defined by the four-branch model of EI) with a total of eight tasks.

Question 5

Mixed and Trait Models

Answer 5

Approaches that view EI as a combination of self-perceived emotion skills, personality traits, and attitudes.

Question 6

Performance assessment

Answer 6

A method of measurement associated with ability models of EI that evaluate the test taker’s ability to solve emotion-related problems.

Question 7

Self-report assessment

Answer 7

A method of measurement associated with mixed and trait models of EI, which evaluates the test taker’s perceived emotion-related skills, distinct personality traits, and other characteristics.

Question 8

Social and emotional learning (SEL)

Answer 8

The real-world application of EI in an educational setting and/or classroom that involves curricula that teach the process of integrating thinking, feeling, and behaving in order to become aware of the self and of others, make responsible decisions, and manage one’s own behaviors and those of others (Elias et al., 1997)