ounts an incident when he awoke from sleep and leaped from bed to what he thought was the sound of an object crashing through the ceiling from the attic, only to find that it was only a stack of boxes falling over. He notes that this emergency response "saves time in an emergency, when an instantaneous response is required."
Emotional Intelligence and Emotional Learning
Mayer and Cobb (2000, p. 171) assert that emotional intelligence("the capacity to perceive, integrate, understand, and manage emotions"(may be "a capacity underlying emotional learning." This assertion is logical, since an individual that is unable to perceive emotion would be hampered in any attempt to learn through that emotion, and if he were unable to integrate, understand, or manage emotions, they could work against his learning by becoming a distraction rather than a benefit. However, it is also true that many people do not gain adequate emotional learning to be successful in their person
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