(Personality and Self) Flashcards
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Which neuroscientific structure is most centrally involved in generating the emotional signals that emotional intelligence skills help us manage?
Answer: Amygdala
The amygdala generates rapid emotional responses (especially fear and threat), and EI involves prefrontal regulation of these amygdala-driven reactions.
The concept of 'emotional flooding' (Gottman) describes a state where:
Answer: Physiological arousal becomes so high that rational processing is impaired
Emotional flooding occurs when physiological arousal (heart rate >100 bpm) overwhelms the capacity for rational thought, making effective communication and problem-solving nearly impossible.
In Goleman's EI model, 'accurate self-assessment' differs from 'self-confidence' in that:
Answer: Accurate self-assessment involves knowing your strengths AND weaknesses; self-confidence is the belief in your own worth and capabilities
Goleman distinguishes accurate self-assessment (realistic appraisal of strengths and growth areas) from self-confidence (a strong sense of one's own value and capabilities).
A therapist notices that a client avoids situations that might trigger sadness, even at the cost of meaningful experiences. This pattern reflects:
Answer: Experiential avoidance — a maladaptive strategy inconsistent with high EI
Experiential avoidance — avoiding internal emotional experiences — narrows life and conflicts with EI's emphasis on accepting and working with all emotions.
Research on 'growth mindset' (Dweck) is relevant to EI development because it suggests:
Answer: Believing EI skills can be developed through effort increases motivation to practice them
A growth mindset — the belief that abilities are malleable — directly predicts engagement with EI skill development, making it a psychological prerequisite for improvement.
Which scenario BEST illustrates 'emotional authenticity' as a component of self-expression in EI?
Answer: Expressing emotions in ways that are genuine, appropriate to context, and considerate of others
Emotional authenticity in EI means expressing genuine feelings in contextually appropriate, other-aware ways — neither suppressing nor uninhibitedly dumping emotions.
When someone says 'I am my emotions' rather than 'I have emotions,' this reflects which deficit in emotional self-concept?
Answer: Emotional fusion — lack of differentiation between self and emotional state
Emotional fusion — identifying the self entirely with current emotional states — reduces flexibility and makes regulation far more difficult, as the emotion feels like an existential threat rather than a passing state.