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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Dr. Antonio Damasio studied patients who suffered damage to what?
(a) The neocortex.
(b) Their prefrontal-amygdala circuit.
(c) The brainstem.
(d) The limbic system.

3. What does “EI” stand for?
(a) Enlightened Intelligence.
(b) Emotional Intelligence.
(c) Evolved Intelligence.
(d) Euphoric Intelligence.

4. Fear arouses the body to fight or flight by doing what within the body?
(a) Sending blood to the major muscles.
(b) Decreasing brain activity.
(c) Causing respiration to decrease.
(d) Increasing awareness.

5. The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test was originated in what country?
(a) Russia.
(b) Germany.
(c) France.
(d) Norway.

Short Answer Questions

1. Emotions, like instincts, have helped humans survive by doing what, according to the author in Part One: Chapter 1, “What Are Emotions For?”

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

3. Walter Mischel’s test in the 1960s measured what?

4. John Mayer names three styles of handling one’s emotions. What is the second?

5. Dolf Zillmann gives two methods for diffusing anger. What is the second?

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