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EI VS IQ

Cognitive intelligence: Cognitive intelligence focuses on the ability to act purposefully, thinkrationally, and deal effectively with your environment. To measure cognitive intelligence,

psychologists administer IQ tests, which rate your intelligence quotient (IQ).

Simply put, IQis a measure of an individual's intellectual, analytical, logical, and rational abilities. AnIQ test measures your verbal, spatial, visual, and mathematical skills. It gauges how readily you

understand new things; focus on tasks and exercises; retain and recall objective information;

engage in a reasoning process; manipulate numbers; think abstractly, as well as analytically; and

solve problems by the application of prior knowledge. If you have a high IQ the average is 100

you're well-equipped to pass all sorts of examinations with flying colors and (not incidentally) to

score well on IQ tests.

Emotional intelligence: Psychologists define emotional intelligence in various ways, depending onwhich expert you ask. Most definitions of emotional intelligence focus on your ability to be aware

of, understand, and manage both your own as well as other people's emotions in order to adapt to

life's demands and pressures. Let me define it for you as the ability to tune in to the world, to readsituations, and to connect with others while taking charge of your own life. Psychologists measure

emotional intelligence by using any of several EQ tests, which measure your emotional quotient

(EQ).

Emotions, as most of know, are a powerful tool in motivating actions. When someone doessomething that we dont quite understand, they might tell us to walk a mile in my shoes. This

is because emotion very often overrides reason and causes outsiders to think that one is acting

in irrational ways. A person with adequate emotional intelligence takes into account the

existence and power of emotions and sees the necessity in situations that others may find

unreasonable.

Emotional intelligence refers to the effectiveness of an individuals response to his or her ownfeelings or emotions and to those of others. A person with high emotional intelligence is very

adept at understanding and properly responding in an appropriate way to the nuances of social

situations. An emotionally intelligent person can use his or her understanding of emotion in

harmony with good reasoning skills to make reasonable decisions while maintaining good

relationships.

A person with low emotional intelligence will likely misinterpret, deny or disregard the impactof human emotion that is present in virtually every social situation. A person with alexithymia, a

severe state of low emotional intelligence, lacks the verbal ability to express emotion or to

describe emotions in others. Those who struggle with alexithymia report to psychologists

feeling no emotion at all, as well as a lack of dreaming, fantasizing and creative imagining. Emotional intelligence, like other aspects of intelligence, lies on a broad spectrum, with a large

margin for normal levels of emotional intelligence. Similar to a test for a persons intelligence

quotient (IQ), the level or score of emotional intelligence can be determined and analyzed for

individual people. These tests aim to show how a person responds to the feelings of others, as

well as how he understands his own, how he deals with social situations and the

appropriateness of his response through a series of questions that mimic real life

circumstances.