Lecture 4 - Emotional Intelligence (Chapter 8) Flashcards
What is hot intelligence?
Abilities that involve non-cognitive traits - interpersonal, social and emotional intelligences.
What is cold intelligence?
Typical cognitive abilities such as solving mathematical problems.
What are the 4 assumptions of hot intelligence theories?
- IQ is not everything
- Interpersonal skills are independent of cognitive abilities.
- Interpersonal skills are more important in real life than academic abilities.
- Interpersonal skills should be conceptualised as a form of ability or intelligence.
What were the two domains Ed Thorndike conceptualised individual differences in, that were separate from the typical predictors of academic and occupational success?
- The ability to manage others
- The ability to act wisely in relationships
What construct did Thorndike’s two domains represent?
Social intelligence
What were the three major facets that Thorndike believed intelligence had?
- Mechanical intelligence
- Abstract intelligence
- Social intelligence
What is mechanical intelligence, according to Thorndike?
The ability to manage concrete objects
What is abstract intelligence according to Thorndike?
The ability to manage ideas
What is social intelligence according to Thorndike?
The ability to understand and manage other people, and to act wisely in human relations.
What was the definition that Moss and Hunt (1927) provided?
A simplified definition of social intelligence, which was:
The ability to get along with others
Who provided the simplified definition of social intelligence, ‘The ability to get along with others’?
Moss and Hunt (1927)
What was Vernon’s (1933) more comprehensive definition of social intelligence?
- The ability to get along with people in general.
- Social technique
- Knowledge of social matters
- Susceptibility to stimuli from other members of a group and insight into the temporary moods or underlying personality traits of strangers.
What did Gardner (1983) argue about social intelligence?
The capacity to know oneself and to know others is an inalienable part of the human condition.
Who’s quote is this:
“The capacity to know oneself and to know others is an inalienable part of the human condition.”
Gardner (1983)
Why is Wong et al’s (1995) conceptualisation of social intelligence representative of modern approaches?
Because their proposed construct is multi-faceted/multidimensional.
Which components of social intelligence does Wong et al. (1995) distinguish between?
Social perception
Behavioural social intelligence
Social Insight
Social knowledge
Why might it be important to study individual differences in social intelligence?
- Academic ability tests are not fully predictive of performance and life success.
- One may be clever in an academic sense, but not in an interpersonal sense.
- Success may be more dependent on our ability to relate to and manage others, than to think abstractly and manage ideas.
- Individual differences in social intelligence may help us to understand psychological disorders - many of them involve deficiencies in social attributes, rather than cognitive abilities.
What did Ford (1986) report about the importance placed on hot intelligence by teachers, parents and students?
Teachers, parents and students believe the development of hot intelligences are of critical importance.
What does GWSIT stand for, and who devised it?
George Washington Social Intelligence Test, Hunt (1928).
What is GWSIT?
One of the earliest social intelligence tests, devised by Hunt (1928), and included:
- Judgement of social situations
- Memory for names and faces
- Observation of human behaviour
- Recognition of the mental states behind words
- Recognition of mental states behind facial expressions
- Social information
- Sense of humour
What did Hunt (1928) report about what can be predicted with the GWSIT?
The components of the GWSIT correlates with:
- Job status
- Extracurricular activities
- Supervisor’s ratings at work
What did opposition to Hunt’s (1928) GWSIT consist of?
GWSIT scores were significantly correlated with extraversion and verbal intelligence tests.
Thorndike and Stein (1937) concluded that the GWSIT is so heavily loaded with work and ideas that differences in social intelligence also means differences in abstract intelligence - the GWSIT cannot seem to separate the two constructs.
What is the major problem with social intelligence measures?
They are often not distinguishable from traditional cognitive ability tests.
What do validation studies (such as Keating, 1978) attempt to show?
That social intelligence is:
- different from academic intelligence (IQ)
- a better predictor of social outcomes than IQ scores are.
