Self-Awareness
The ability to recognize your emotions as they occur.
What is self-awareness?*
Taking deep breaths to calm anger is an example of this.
What is emotional management?
The ability to understand and share another person’s feelings.
What is empathy?
A key component of strong relationships where both parties feel heard.
What is effective communication?
High emotional intelligence helps reduce this common student challenge
What is stress?
Keeping a journal about your emotional triggers helps improve this.
What is emotional self-awareness?
The practice of shifting from a negative to a positive emotion
What is reframing?
Recognizing nonverbal cues like facial expressions and tone of voice
What is social awareness?
Setting these helps maintain personal well-being in relationships.
What are boundaries?
Understanding group members’ emotions improves this academic skill.
What is teamwork/collaboration?
A technique where you pause and ask, “Why am I feeling this way?
What is self-reflection?
A strategy where you remove yourself from a stressful situation to regain control.
What is a time-out?
A barrier to empathy that involves judging others too quickly.
What is making assumptions?
A toxic behavior where one person tries to control or manipulate another.
What is emotional abuse?
A strategy for staying motivated by connecting emotions to goals.
What is visualizing success?
This psychological term describes when people underestimate their negative emotions or overestimate their ability to control them.
What is emotional blind spot?
A strategy where you replace a destructive thought (e.g., “I’ll never pass”) with a constructive one (e.g., “I’ll study harder”).
What is thought stopping/replacement?
This term describes the ability to “read the room” and adjust communication accordingly.
What is emotional attunement?
This type of communication style involves expressing needs clearly without aggression or passivity.
What is assertive communication?
Research shows students with high EQ are better at this skill, which involves delaying gratification for long-term success.
What is self-discipline or impulse control?
According to the book, this technique involves tracking emotional patterns over time to identify recurring triggers.
What is an emotional inventory?
The three-step process for managing intense emotions
What is Awareness, Breathe, Choose
A barrier to empathy where a person focuses more on their response than truly listening.
What is rehearsing instead of listening?
The “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” in relationships (criticism, contempt, defensiveness, stonewalling) were identified by this psychologist
Who is John Gottman?
A study technique that reduces stress by breaking tasks into smaller steps, closely tied to emotional regulation.
What is chunking?