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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Psychologists Peter Salovey and John Mayer define emotional intelligence into five categories. What is the third category?
(a) Handling relationships.
(b) Knowing one’s emotions.
(c) Motivating one's self.
(d) Managing emotions.

2. Alexithymia is a term coined by what psychotherapist in 1972?
(a) Lewis Terman.
(b) Peter Sifneos.
(c) Thomas Borkovec.
(d) Bruce McEven.

3. Psychologists Lizabeth Roemer and Thomas Borkovec work at what university?
(a) The University of Iowa.
(b) Pennsylvania State University.
(c) New York University.
(d) Yale University.

4. Venting anger generally does what, according to the author in Part Two: Chapter 5, “Passion's Slaves”?
(a) Justifies it.
(b) Acknowledges it.
(c) Reduces it.
(d) Fuels it.

5. Joseph LeDoux found that sensory signals from the eye or ear go to the thalamus and then to what?
(a) The amygdala.
(b) The neocortex.
(c) The olfactory lobe.
(d) The left pre-frontal lobe.

Short Answer Questions

1. John Mayer is a psychologist at what institution?

2. What type of specialist is Dr. Antonio Damasio?

3. What refers to being aware of one's mood and one's thoughts about that mood at the same time?

4. Psychologists Peter Salovey and John Mayer define emotional intelligence into five categories. What is the first category?

5. Fear arouses the body to fight or flight by doing what within the body?

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