1 General Mental and Psychological Abilities · 1.6.1 Emotional and social intelligence

1.6.1.3 Social intelligence, decision making, critical thinking, problem solving and personality assessment (Big Five, MBTI basics)

Social intelligence is skill with people; decision making, critical thinking and problem solving are skills with choices, claims and obstacles; and personality tests (Big Five, MBTI and others) describe the stable patterns behind how each of us does all three.

  • APPSC Group 1
  • Advanced level
  • 11 min read
  • Full course

Key terms

  • social intelligence
  • Thorndike 1920
  • Goleman social intelligence
  • decision making
  • Herbert Simon
  • bounded rationality
  • satisficing
  • intelligence design choice
  • programmed decisions
  • cognitive biases
  • groupthink
  • Kahneman System 1 System 2
  • critical thinking
  • Bloom's taxonomy
  • logical fallacies
  • problem solving
  • Polya
  • Wallas stages
  • convergent divergent thinking
  • functional fixedness
  • lateral thinking
  • personality
  • Big Five
  • OCEAN
  • NEO-PI-R
  • MBTI
  • Jung
  • 16PF
  • Eysenck
  • projective tests
  • Rorschach
  • TAT
  • MMPI

What this note covers

  1. Core factsFoundation
  2. ExplainedStandard
  3. DeeperAdvanced
  4. Mains writingMains writing
  5. Common trapsFoundation
  6. Quick revisionFoundation

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