PSY 260 Lecture Notes - Intelligence Quotient, Social Intelligence, David Wechsler
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Mental ability: the capacity to carry out a mental tasks, such as solving problems, generating ideas, and similar challenges to arrive at the desired sort of solution to work with information to obtain a desired answer. Paradox of measuring mental abilities: favoring the elites society can reward and promote those with inherited abilities, favoring a democratic impulse society can identify those who can learn independent of inherited wealth. Iq = 228: left college too unchallenging, highly successful, married inventor of artificial heart (jarvik, still writes, authored numerous books, succeeded in numerous financial pursuits. Managing emotions guiding emotions in oneself and others, staying open to feelings. Understanding emotions understanding the meanings of emotion words, knowing how and when one emotion changes into another. Using emotions to enhance thought understanding how emotions relate to other sensations, pairing activities with moods that facilitate them. Accurately perceiving emotions in natural and cultural works, in faces and posture: the mayer-salovey-carusos emotional intelligence test (msceit) .
