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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author refers to EI as which of the following?
(a) An adverse reaction.
(b) A clinical disease.
(c) A meta-ability.
(d) An inherited gene.

2. What term refers to the state when the amygdala declares a state of emergency and drives the rest of the brain to respond to that emergency immediately?
(a) Fear conditioning.
(b) Neural hijacking.
(c) Objective thinking.
(d) Anger management.

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

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of specialist is Joseph LeDoux?

3. Dr. Antonio Damasio works at the College of Medicine at what university?

4. Joseph LeDoux works at the Center for Neural Science at what institution?

5. When was Alfred Binet born?

(see the answer key)

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