Quiz 6 2012 Summer Intro to Psyc

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1. we fear what our ancestral history has prepared us to fear - snakes, lizards, spiders, hights (flying)

2. we fear what we cannot control (driving we control, flying we do not)

3. we rear what is immediate (flying - between take off and landing, driving - many diffused moments, smoking - distant future)

4. we fear what is most readily available in memory - image of 911 flight into WTC, vs rotovirus - not seen by people)

perfectly normal to fear purposeful violence from those who hate us - but rist those who serve their own pruposes by cultivating a culture of fear - by doing so, we can take away the terorists most omnipresent weapon - exaggerated fear

edward thorndike 1920

the ability to netowrk effectively with peers because they are adept at processing and managing soical informatino (some rationally smart people lack)

Mayer, Salovey, Caruso

developed a test that assessed four components of emotional intelligence

the abilities to

1. perceive emotions (to recognize them in faces, music, and stories)

2. understand emotions (predict them and how they change and blend)

3. manage emotions (to knwo how to express them in varied situations)

4. use emotions (to enable adaptive or creative thining)

1. enjoyed higher-quality interactions with friends

2. avoid being hijacked by overwhelming depression, anziety, or anger

3. can read others' emotions and know what to say to soothe a grieving friend, encourage a colleague, and manage a conflict

4. modestly better job performance

5. override immediate impulses and delay gratificatino in pursuit of long-range rewards

- tend to succeed in career, marriage, and parental situations where academiclaly smarter people fail

Elliot

Damasio

no emotion felt - even if devastating pictures shown - Elliot knew he felt no emotions - lost his job, marriage, dependent on disability check

some think concept of emotinal intelligence pushes things to far - shoudl not include self-esteem and optimism

Gardner goes a step further - he says he welcomes stretching the concept of intelligence into realms of space, music and informatino, but to stretch it to include everything we prize and it will lose its meaning

1. spelling
2. verbal ability
3. nonverbal memory
4. sensatin
5. emotion-detecting ability
6. math and spatial aptitudes

females better
only 30% of males spell better than average female

females excel at verbal fluency and remembering words

females have an edge in remmbering and locating objects - picture associations

females more sensitve to touch, taste, and odor

females - vidoe of emotions with garbled words - females can pick it out

math tests - score same

20 out of 21 countries - females had edge in math computations

males - edge in math problem solving

12-14 year olds score, extremely high scorers - boys score 13 to 1

more boy earn degrees in inorganic sciences and engineering

spatial ability - males ( due to male hormones in prenatal period and video games)

( due to male hormones in prenatal period and video games)

geometry problems - men better at them - fitting suitcases in truck, playing chess,

would have helped our ansestors track prey and make it home

memory of edible plants (ancestors)

evolutionary psychologist

argues that biological as well as social influences appear to affect gender differences in

life priorities (women interested in people, men in money and things)

risk taking (men more reckless)

math reasoinging and spatial abilities.

affected by prenatal hormones, observed in genetic boys raisd as girls

male/female intellectual worlds over simplified

bigger gap in those who have gender-undequal cultures (korea, turkey)
and less in those who have equal (sweden adn iceland)

us catching up as gender gap is narrowing

halpern - no one has asked if men have the innate ability to succeed in those academic disciplines where they are underrepresented

tendency for males mental ability scores to vary more than females - more at high and low extreme

boys more likely to be in special education classes, talk later, stutter more