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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is medically recognized as a mental and emotional condition in which a person experiences intense feelings of depression, discontent and indifference to the world around them?
(a) Narcissistic personality disorder.
(b) Depression.
(c) Bipolar disorder
(d) Dysphoria.

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

3. The left pre-frontal lobe of the brain can turn off or dampen what emotion?
(a) Distress.
(b) Love.
(c) Empathy.
(d) Anger.

4. What does “DSM” refer to?
(a) Disease Spreading Material.
(b) Depression and Sleep Apnea Medicine.
(c) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
(d) Damaging Social Manners.

5. In 1916, at Stanford University, what psychologist released a revised examination which became known as the "Stanford–Binet test"?
(a) Bruce McEven.
(b) Robert Levenson.
(c) Robert Hare.
(d) Lewis Terman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Decision making involves balancing the emotional and the what?

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

3. Alexithymics may suffer from a disconnection between the limbic system and what?

4. Dr. Antonio Damasio studied patients who suffered damage to what?

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

(see the answer key)

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