Sinead Has Never Been a Particularly Good Student,but She Has

question 27

Multiple Choice

Sinead has never been a particularly good student,but she has always been popular.She knows that she reads and responds accurately to others' emotions,and often tells people she has emotional intelligence.Alex,who prefers g theory,disagrees by presenting one of the most common arguments against emotional intelligence,saying that

• A) it overlaps too much with Gardner's interpersonal intelligence.
• B) the concept of intelligence is being stretched too far from its original focus of mental abilities.
• C) there is no way to determine whether emotional intelligence is innate or learned,so the concept doesn't mesh well with the crystallized/fluid intelligences approach.
• D) emotional intelligence is not an adaptive ability.

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