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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Catecholamines.
(b) Carbohydrates.
(c) Enzymes.
(d) Proteins.

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

3. According to the author in “Part Three: Chapter 9, “Intimate Enemies,” boys honor independence while girls treasure what?
(a) Confidence.
(b) Survival.
(c) Connectedness.
(d) Rationality.

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

5. According to an example in “Part Three: Chapter 9, “Intimate Enemies,” when boys play a sports game and one gets injured, the injured is expected to do what?
(a) Call for his mother.
(b) Get off the field.
(c) Plead for a penalty.
(d) Get the attention of the referee.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does “FACS” stand for?

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

3. John Mayer is a psychologist at what institution?

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

5. Who found that husbands find disagreements more stressful and therefore have a lower threshold for flooding leading them to stonewall as a protective defense?

(see the answer key)

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