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

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) Depression.
(b) Bipolar disorder
(c) Narcissistic personality disorder.
(d) Dysphoria.

2. Joseph LeDoux works at the Center for Neural Science at what institution?
(a) Pennsylvania State University.
(b) New York University.
(c) The University of Wisconsin.
(d) The University of Washington.

3. An example of the social skills of charisma is exemplified by a scenario with an elderly Japanese man calming who on a bus in Part Two: Chapter 8, “The Social Arts”?
(a) A hysterical mother.
(b) A violent felon.
(c) A rude teenager.
(d) A belligerent drunk.

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

5. Psychologists Peter Salovey and John Mayer define emotional intelligence into five categories. What is the third category?
(a) Motivating one's self.
(b) Knowing one’s emotions.
(c) Managing emotions.
(d) Handling relationships.

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

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

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

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

10. 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) Objective thinking.
(b) Neural hijacking.
(c) Fight or flight.
(d) Self-awareness.

11. Psychologists Daniel Weinberger and Richard Davidson researched what group of people who appear to tune-out their emotions?
(a) Distressors.
(b) Repressors.
(c) Aggressors.
(d) Depressors.

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

13. Charisma combines four separate interpersonal intelligence components. What is the first?
(a) Organizing groups.
(b) Personal connection.
(c) Social analysis.
(d) Negotiating solutions.

14. Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi works at what university?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) Stanford University.
(c) Rutgers University.
(d) Claremont Graduate University.

15. Psychologists Peter Salovey and John Mayer define emotional intelligence into five categories. What is the second category?
(a) Managing emotions.
(b) Knowing one’s emotions.
(c) Handling relationships.
(d) Motivating one's self.

Short Answer Questions

1. Alexithymia refers to a state of deficiency in understanding, processing, or describing what?

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

3. Charisma combines four separate interpersonal intelligence components. What is the third?

4. What component of the brain remembers facts and context?

5. The left pre-frontal lobe of the brain can turn off or dampen what emotion?

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