PSYC 002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Louis Leon Thurstone, Robert Sternberg, Social Intelligence
30 Mar 2017
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Louis thurstone disagreed with the idea of one general measure and trait of overall intelligence. Howard gardner"s eight intelligences: linguistic, naturalist, logical mathematical, musical. Creativity: the ability to produce ideas that are novel (new) and valuable, serves a purpose. Imaginative thinking: having the ability to see new perspectives, combinations, connections. Venturesome personality: tending to seek out new experiences despite risk, ambiguity, obstacles. Intrinsic motivation: enjoying the pursuit of interests and challenge, without needing external direction or rewards. Creative environment: having support, feedback, encouragement, time and space to think. Social intelligence: refers to the ability to understand and navigate social situations. Emotional intelligence: involves processing and managing the emotional component of those social situations, including one"s own emotions. Recognizing emotions in facial expressions, stories, music. Being able to see blended emotions, and to predict emotional states and changes in self and others. Modulating and expressing emotions in various situations. Using emotions as fuel and motivation for creative, adaptive thinking.
