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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author in Part Two: Chapter 6, “The Master Aptitude,” the superior achievement of Asian-Americans comes more from what than from IQ?
(a) Politics and religion.
(b) Genetics and environment.
(c) Effort and determination.
(d) Culture and music.

2. According to researchers in “Part Three: Chapter 9, “Intimate Enemies,” girls learn what faster than boys, and therefore become more skilled at expressing and reading emotions?
(a) Anger.
(b) Language.
(c) Exaggeration.
(d) Temperance.

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

4. Charisma combines four separate interpersonal intelligence components, according to what two psychologists discussed in Part Two: Chapter 8, “The Social Arts”?
(a) Ulf Dimberg and Peter Salovey.
(b) Thomas Hatch and Howard Gardner.
(c) Ted Huston and Martin Seligman.
(d) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and T. Berry Brazelton.

5. In a study by psychologist Martin Seligman, salesmen who were optimists sold how much more insurance in their first two years on the job than did pessimists?
(a) 18%.
(b) 37%.
(c) 52%.
(d) 76%.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Charisma combines four separate interpersonal intelligence components. What is the second?

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

4. What psychologist at the University of Texas summarizes his research by reporting that women want to talk to make an emotional connection, but men want to make a connection by doing things together?

5. What test did Walter Mischel devise in the 1960s?

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