4 Branches of Emotional Intelligence
- Perceiving Emotion
- Facilitating thought with emotion
- Understanding emotions
- Managing emotions
EI: Perceiving Emotion
Identify emotions on the basis of perceptual cues.
Eg. Noticing a frown on friends face when you mention the name of someone –> jealously
EI: Facilitating thought with emotion
Harness emotional information to enhance thinking
Eg. Changing a comment to a friend to avoid a rocky outcome
EI: Understanding Emotion
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
EI: Manage Emotions
Ability to manage emotions and emotional relationships
Eg. Take deep breaths bc you realise you are becoming annoyed
x4 problems of intellectual functioning
- 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)
1st Intelligence Test
- 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
Intelligence Test history
Terman
- Stanford-Binet test
- ages 2-adult
- American Version
Wechsler
- Wechsler adult intelligence scale (WAIS)
- Wechsler intelligence scale for children (WISC)
IQ
Intelligence Quotient = mental age / actual age x 100
Distribution of IQ
-95% of individuals would score between 70 & 130
General Intelligence (g)
- Spearman
- a single underlying factor which accounts for intercorrelation of peoples abilities on various types of tests
Fluid Intelligence
ability to solve novel problems, deal with novel situations (cattell & horn)
- peaks early adulthood
- effeced by drugs and alcohol
Crystallised intelligence
Use previous, learning and experience to deal with future, similar situations
-can continute to rise with age
Howard Gardner Intelligences
(x9)
Spacial, linguistic, musical, logical-mathmatical, bodily-kinesthic, intrapersonal, interpersonal, naturalist, existential Intelligence
Robert Sternberg Intelligences (name and describe)
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)
Heritability
- 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
Flynn effect
Average IQ increases 3 points every 10 years
- daily life more challenging
- nutrition is better
x2 Educational Programmes and IQ
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
Characteristics of Creative People (x11)
- 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
Enhancing Creativity (Sternberg) x9
- 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
x2 stages of Creativity
- Generate various possible solutions
2. Select among them
