Intelligent Behaviors and Social Psychology

📋 Course Outline

1. Fourteen Intelligent Behaviors
2. Plutchik’s Fundamental Emotions
3. Strategies for Emotion Management
4. Foundations of Social Psychology
5. Interactions and Relationships
6. Person Perception and Judgment
7. Social Norms and Behavior

📖 1. Fourteen Intelligent Behaviors

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• Intelligent behavior : A way of conducting oneself that manifests dispositions associated with efficient and effective problem-solving.
• Metacognition : Awareness of how one is thinking or knowledge of what is occurring in one’s mind.
• Creativity : The application of ingenuity, originality, and insight to generate original, unique, clever, or useful products, solutions, and techniques.

📝 Essential Points

• The fourteen intelligent behaviors are persistence, overcoming impulsiveness, listening to others, flexibility in thinking, metacognition, checking for accuracy and precision, questioning and problem-posing, applying past knowledge to new situations, precision of language and thought, using all the senses, creativity, living with a sense of wonderment, cooperation, and sense of humor.