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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who found that husbands find disagreements more stressful and therefore have a lower threshold for flooding leading them to stonewall as a protective defense?
(a) Robert Rosenthal.
(b) Ted Huston.
(c) William Stern.
(d) Robert Levenson.

2. Psychologist C. R. Snyder studied students’ grades in relation to their level of what?
(a) Family wealth.
(b) Time spent watching television.
(c) Community involvement.
(d) Hope of success.

3. During an emotional hijacking, emotions interfere with what, also known as the ability to take in and process information?
(a) Intelligence Quotient.
(b) Somatic markers.
(c) Verbal development.
(d) Working memory.

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

5. 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 rude teenager.
(b) A hysterical mother.
(c) A violent felon.
(d) A belligerent drunk.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to an example in “Part Three: Chapter 9, “Intimate Enemies,” when girls play a sports game and one gets injured, what happens?

2. Leslie Brody and who summarize research on the emotional development of boys and girls in Part Three: Chapter 9, “Intimate Enemies”?

3. 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?

4. Researcher Paul Ekman names three kinds of display rules in Part Two: Chapter 8, “The Social Arts.” What is the second?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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