Emotional Intelligence Lab
Directions:
1) After reading the introduction below, take the two emotional intelligence tests linked below (blue links).
2) Cut & Paste the results only into a word document.
3) Answer the Critical Thinking Activity questions in the same word document.
4) Save the results and then print them out, and hand in to Mrs. Nardone.
What Is Your Emotional Intelligence? an inventory on Emotional Abilities
Daniel Goleman, a Harvard University professor, believes having a high "emotional intelligence" is critical
for your success in the world. Emotional Intelligence appears to be an important set of psychological
abilities that relate to life success.
Daniel Goleman’s provocative book, Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More than IQ for
Character, Health and Lifelong Achievement posed the theory that it is empathy and communication skills
as well as social and leadership skills that will be central to your success in life and personal relationships.
Rather than a high IQ, Goleman purports that it is far better to have a high E-IQ, emotional intelligence, if
you want to be a valued and productive member of our society.
Daniel Goleman argues that men particularly need to develop emotional skills and gives many examples of
men with high intelligence that were not successful because they had problems with their people skills. He
found from his research that poor emotional competencies led to poor marriage relationships and
unproductive work relationships.
I. LAB RESEARCH ON EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE:
For our lab we will take two inventories on EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE offered on the Web.
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Take this http://www.ihhp.com/quiz.php and cut/paste your score
Take Mini-Test Two http://www.queendom.com/emotionaliq.html and cut/paste your score.
CRITICAL THINKING ACTIVITY: ANSWER THE QUESTIONS IN YELLOW
1 .TEST RESULTS:
 Are there specific questions that reveal your strengths or areas of emotional intelligence in which you
could improve? Discuss.
2. ON CONSTRUCT VALIDITY:
 Obviously it is difficult to measure "emotional intelligence" at present as there is not a generally accepted
definition of what emotional intelligence consists of which makes it very difficult to measure.
Do you believe that "emotional intelligence" is a valid psychological "construct?"
(A "psychological construct" is an abstract description of a concept that is
inferred from observing human behavior. A psychological construct is a theory
about human behavior that is difficult to measure concretely, a concept like
"personality" or "intelligence".)
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