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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Marriages that began in 1890 suffered a divorce rate of what percentage, according to the author in Part Three: Chapter 9, “Intimate Enemies”?
(a) 2%.
(b) 14%.
(c) 10%.
(d) 6%.

2. What does “DSM” refer to?
(a) Disease Spreading Material.
(b) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
(c) Depression and Sleep Apnea Medicine.
(d) Damaging Social Manners.

3. 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?
(a) Ted Huston.
(b) C. R. Snyder.
(c) John Mayer.
(d) Robert Ader.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What name refers to the groups of nuclei in the limbic system which store emotional memory assigning meaning to feelings?

3. What psychologist tracked 200 couples identifying significant signs that predict which marriages will fail based on how they handle disagreements?

4. Psychologist C. R. Snyder works at what university?

5. Aside from social changes, the glue that holds a couple together is what, according to the author in Part Three: Chapter 9, “Intimate Enemies”?

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