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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Walter Mischel’s test in the 1960s measured what?
(a) Deferred gratification.
(b) Post-traumatic stress disorder.
(c) Marriages and arguments.
(d) Childhood obesity.

3. According to the author, we cannot control when an emotion strikes or which emotion will strike, but we can control what?
(a) The length of the distressing emotion.
(b) The switch to a different emotion.
(c) The intensity of that emotion.
(d) When to have no emotion at all.

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

5. Where is researcher Ulf Dimberg from?
(a) Iceland.
(b) Poland.
(c) Germany.
(d) Sweden.

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

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

8. Worriers believe they are planning ahead to ward off danger, but in fact, the act of worrying prevents them from what, according to the author?
(a) Neural hijacking.
(b) Objective thinking.
(c) Self-awareness.
(d) Fight or flight.

9. John Mayer is a psychologist at what institution?
(a) The University of New Hampshire.
(b) Columbia University.
(c) New York University.
(d) Claremont Graduate University.

10. What test did Walter Mischel devise in the 1960s?
(a) The Harvard peanut experiment.
(b) The Rutgers chicken experiment.
(c) The Columbia orange experiment.
(d) The Stanford marshmallow experiment.

11. At what age can children separate their own feelings from the feelings of others, according to the author in Part Two: Chapter 7, “The Roots of Empathy”?
(a) 4.
(b) 7.
(c) 2 ½.
(d) 5 ½.

12. About how many years ago did mammals develop a neocortex?
(a) 2,000.
(b) 100 million.
(c) 400,000.
(d) 20 million.

13. Researcher Paul Ekman names three kinds of display rules in Part Two: Chapter 8, “The Social Arts.” What is the third?
(a) Inventing.
(b) Substituting.
(c) Exaggerating.
(d) Minimizing.

14. For what publication did Daniel Goleman write for twelve years, specializing in psychology and brain sciences?
(a) The New York Times.
(b) The Chicago Tribune.
(c) The San Francisco Chronicle.
(d) The Denver Post.

15. Researcher Paul Ekman names three kinds of display rules in Part Two: Chapter 8, “The Social Arts.” What is the first?
(a) Substituting.
(b) Inventing.
(c) Minimizing.
(d) Exaggerating.

Short Answer Questions

1. In philosophy, what is the characteristic of any action, belief, or desire that makes their choice a necessity?

2. Empathy is learned in infancy through what process?

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

4. What are released by the adrenal glands as a reaction to stress, raising blood pressure, heart rate and the breathing rate and increasing muscle strength in a state of alertness?

5. Walter Mischel works as a psychologist at what university?

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