A particular school is making an effort to encourage cooperative behaviour among students. In this, emphasis is being given on enhancing the ability to process emotional information accurately and efficiently. Identify the kind of intelligence the school is encouraging:

Emotional intelligence

The correct answer is Option (3) → Emotional intelligence

The school's focus on enhancing students' ability to process emotional information accurately and efficiently, and to encourage cooperative behaviour, directly relates to emotional intelligence.

"The notion of emotional intelligence broadens the concept of intelligence beyond the intellectual sphere/domain and considers that intelligence includes emotions. Emotional intelligence is a set of skills that underlie accurate appraisal, expression, and regulation of emotions. It is the feeling side of intelligence. A good IQ and scholastic record is not enough to be successful in life. You may find many people who are academically talented, but are unsuccessful in their own life. They experience problems in family, workplace and interpersonal relationships. What do they lack? Some psychologists believe that the source of their difficulty may be a lack of emotional intelligence. This concept was first introduced by Salovey and Mayer who considered emotional intelligence as “the ability to monitor one’s own and other’s emotions, to discriminate among them, and to use the information to guide one’s thinking and actions”. Emotional Quotient (EQ) is used to express emotional intelligence in the same way as IQ is used to express intelligence. In simple terms, emotional intelligence refers to the ability to process emotional information accurately and efficiently."