EDUCATION 2: Facilitating Learning
INSTRUCTOR:
Mrs. Sheryl Ann Perciano
Submitted By:
Hazel P. Villegas
Maria Dolores L. Comighod
BEED- Content Course [ II-D ]
Individuals have many similar characteristics but they too differ in many respects. One of these individual differences is the intellectual differences which also refers to the intelligence.
Intelligence is the general capacity of a person to adjust consciously his thinking to a new requirement. It is the combination of general and specific abilities that a person possesses in coping with the problem of his everyday living. Also according to studies the non-cognitive aspects of intelligence is also important for adaptation and success that supports the discovery of emotional intelligence.
Emotional intelligence refers to an ability to recognize the meanings of emotion and their relationships, and to reason and problem-solve on the basis of them. Emotional intelligence is involved in the capacity to perceive emotions, assimilate emotion-related feelings, understand the information of those emotions, and manage them.
Brief History of Emotional Intelligence * 1930s – Edward Thorndike describes the concept of "social intelligence" as the ability to get along with other people.
* 1940s – David Wechsler suggests that affective components of intelligence may be essential to success in life.
* 1950s – Humanistic psychologists such as Abraham Maslow describe how people can build emotional strength.
* 1975 - Howard Gardner publishes The Shattered Mind, which introduces the concept of multiple intelligences.
* 1985 - Wayne Payne introduces the term emotional intelligence in his doctoral dissertation entitled “A study of emotion: developing emotional intelligence; self-integration; relating to fear, pain and desire (theory, structure of reality, problem-solving, contraction/expansion, tuning in/coming out/letting go).”
* 1987 – In an
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