The Emotional Nature of Intelligence

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The Emotional Nature of Intelligence

• Chapter 7

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• Important!!! Connections from the emotional
  system to the cognitive system are stronger than
  vice versa
• Memory
• Recollection of emotions related to the
  event?biological changes
• Recollections spider map?event plus other
  associated events ( or -)
• Emotions complicated collection of patterned
  chemical and neural responses that regulate an
  organism in the manner that is advantageous to
  its survival
• Bodily humors?middle ages
• Response to assessments to internal and external
  information?rise measurable physiological states
• Dynamic process, socially influenced, value
  appraising
• Is a subconscious process
• Perception?reflexive nature of the process
• Intelligence (orbifrontal lobes) evaluate the
  reality of such reflexes ?and acts upon them

feeling
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The Emotional Nature of Intelligence is

• Attentive
• Neural and glandular systems that trigger changes
  in mind-body states, reflexive changes, that
  arouse the brains attention to what it is
  important
• Judgmental
• Reflexive arousal systems associated with
  emotions, interact with rational reasoning in the
  brain to evaluate the merits of events and
  options
• Motivating
• Emotions both arouses and sustains passions about
  things that matter
• Manageable
• The brain is able to recognize and mediate
  emotional responses after the fact, a capacity
  called emotional intelligence

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Primary emotions Fear (anxiety, concern or
nervousness) Anger Happiness (pride, rapture
whimsy) Sadness Surprise Disgust
These all
represent body states
Occur at subconscious
level Example of
survival of
truck???
What would your life be if you Were not
emotional? Boooring!!! Little survival
skills?evaluation
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• Decide on an event that
• describes a) fear, anger,
• disgust or sadness b) joy or
• inspiration c) requires an important decision
• Describe what occurs in body, mind and behavior

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Amygdala

• Emotion
• Movement
• Change
• Action
• In the body and
• In the mind

Hyppocampus
Brain stem

• Amygdala and brain stem emotion centers
  sentries that
• monitor info. brought by senses and body
  movements to the
• thalamus and olfactory lobe?discovery and
  concern
• If information important, emotion centers inform
  other parts of the
• brain
• Through electrochemical communications the neural
  networks
• develop body states?feeling or the emotional
  response
• Prefrontal cortex assess what is happening?assess
  what is
• happening so appropriate responses follow
• ACT FIRST-THINK LATER RESPONSE TO INFORMATION
• VS. THINK - RESPONSE TO INFORMATION

Need emotions in order to survive
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• History of the Brain
• All about body
• body chemical system? organisms without brains
• Brain developed and took over those functions
• Gut instinct example
• The nose knows?ability to detect, organize and
  recall a wide range of scents?what is good and
  bad to eat (survival need to judge)
• Emotion is everywhere?some system evoke certain
• emotions, but getting there depends on prior
  knowledge
• Like an individual neuron, emotions consider the
  source?assessment (frontal lobe)
• Strong emotion is designed to be a sprinter, not
  a distance runner?if not emotional problems!!!

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• The Fine Art of Emotions
• Emotions is the arbiter between
• lower and higher brain structures
• capacity for understanding
• solving problems (feel pain)
• Emotions flow uphill?from emotion
• systems to complex reasoning
• systems

• Emotions can be turned on by our
  thoughts?conscious
• reflection of past or future experiences
• Too much of the good thing co-opts the work of
  the
• best and brightest?hijacking the brain from
  the
• essential role which is a basic survival mode
• Emotions move beyond the passion of the moment
  ?mind body states can be regulated

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• Emotions do not dance alone its platform is the
  physiological intelligence saturated with
  chemicals.
• The healthy functioning of those systems depends
  of the brain physiology