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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author in Part Two: Chapter 5, “Passion's Slaves,” anger, if not cut off, will fuel itself into what?
(a) Suicide.
(b) Depression.
(c) Anxiety.
(d) Rage.

2. Dolf Zillmann gives two methods for diffusing anger. What is the first?
(a) Challenge the angry thoughts before taking action.
(b) Release the anger in a constructive manner.
(c) Find someone to council you about the anger.
(d) Remove yourself from the setting that triggers the anger.

3. What refers to being aware of one's mood and one's thoughts about that mood at the same time?
(a) Neural hijacking.
(b) Objective thinking.
(c) Self-awareness.
(d) Working memory.

4. Where did Daniel Goleman earn his Ph.D.?
(a) The University of Kansas.
(b) The University of Washington.
(c) Emory University.
(d) Harvard University.

5. Alexithymics may suffer from a disconnection between the limbic system and what?
(a) The olfactory lobe.
(b) The left pre-frontal lobe.
(c) The neocortex.
(d) The brainstem.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dr. Antonio Damasio labels what are commonly known as “gut feelings” with what term?

2. The left and right pre-frontal lobes of the brain’s cortex balance the emotional responses of what?

3. The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test was originated in what country?

4. What name refers to the groups of nuclei in the limbic system which store emotional memory assigning meaning to feelings?

5. Psychologists Daniel Weinberger and Richard Davidson researched what group of people who appear to tune-out their emotions?

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