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Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 2:20 am
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Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 2:48 pm
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I'm a psychology student, and I'm currently finishing my second year. A similar question was posed in one of our classes by one of the other students. Anyway, emotional intelligence is not a valid psychological construct. Scientific analysis did not show that it was an independent variable, one that cannot be broken down to more simple components. The concept of EQ may have become popular over the last few years, but it isn't really accepted in the academic circles.
However, if you ask whether pure intelligence is more important than social skills, I agree with you that it isn't. Autistic people can be extremely intelligent, and yet they live miserable lives. I see emotions as the goal, and the intelligence as the tool to reach that goal. Intelligence basically is a tool. You use it to achieve something. Happiness. Positive emotions. By obtaining what you want... love, money, whatever. For me, the tool can never have the priority over the goal.
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Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 4:18 pm
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Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 1:20 am
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Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 10:59 am
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Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 3:15 pm
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When you say that your IQ doesn't grow... it all really depends on how you define it. Among psychologists, there IS NOT a single definition of intelligence that is accepted. For example, Raymond B. Cattell introduced a difference between fluid and crystallized intelligence. He defined fluid intelligence as the factor that influences the speed of your data processing, and the visual and spacial aspects of intelligence. He defined crystallized intelligence as the factor that influences your verbal fluency, your general knowledge and similar aspects of intelligence. According to his researches, fluid intelligence rises until you're approximately 20, and then drops. Crystallized, on the other hand, can rise indefinitely.
Then again, this was his theory, which gained quite a following, but wasn't universally accepted. Once again, there isn't one universally accepted theory of intelligence. So, when you say that it stops growing when you're 14, you should specify who said that and which theory was behind. In the end, it all depends on the definition of intelligence. And definitions are just words. Not real entities in our heads.
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Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 6:51 pm
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Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 6:12 pm
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B09876 It's not exactly true to say that you can't have one without the other - that's why there are autistics around, like the person above you said. Having said that, most people are born with a reasonable amount of each. What's interesting is that your IQ becomes fixed when you're about 14 or so, and from then on it doesn't grow. (You can teach yourself to perform better on IQ tests, but apparently you can't increase your IQ) but your EQ or social skills grow and increase for every moment you live. I think you can be really successful if you have social skills (EQ) and not that much IQ but the other way around just doesn't work. You could not have a good education but have amazing social skills that get you through interviews and up there being a leader or something amazing, but if you are really smart but just can't talk to people or manage your own emotions, your talents are more likely to go to waste. Actually, they used to think that, but mainstream understanding from the past 10 years or so show that that is completely wrong. Though the development of the brain does slow down considerably as one leaves childhood, according to a proven principal called nueroplasticity (which is apparently not accepted yet by my computer's dictionary) it never really stops developing at all. Take for example a person who has had a limb amputated. For the next few days after the surgery they will still believe that they feel sensations in the missing limb and even forget it is missing (much to the shock of whatever candystriper is caring for them). This is because while the limb is gone the brain map for it is not, and if neurons randomly fire in that part of the brain the person will feel sensation in a part of their body that no longer exists. However, within just a few days the patient stops having these experiences. This is because The brain map for this limb is not only becoming inactive, but being altogether eradicated as the rest of the brain realizes it is useless and fills in the space with something more helpful. Our brains are literally rewiring themselves by the second. Each tiny passing thought changes the way our brains work, because all reinforced connections get stronger while all unused ones get weaker and even disappear completely. I am currently using this principal to teach myself to write with my left hand and get a better visual memory (because frankly, my current one sucks, though I can learn a song by hearing it three times... ) and so far it has been working pretty well. The concept has also been used to train mentally disabled people of all ages to function at normal or above normal levels.
Whoa, epic. My longest post ever on gaia.
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Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 3:12 pm
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Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 7:21 pm
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Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 3:48 pm
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Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 1:36 pm
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well, in relevance, the IQ is used for things like, "Hey, know that?"... EQ would be more towards "Hey, Know what that's like?"... EQ is based upon the experiences you take compared to the genes you share and how they resolve it... IQ on the other hand has almost nothing to do with genetics or experience with the exception of "who can learn it faster"...
in my opinion, EQ is most important, as that is what the personality is derived from... it is who you are, and how you see things, which is different for everyone... That is what makes you human... IQ puts you a brain point above the rest, but EQ is the reason why... how could you get a high IQ if you never had the interest...
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Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 2:19 pm
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Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 8:47 pm
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Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 2:48 pm
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