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) 6%.
(b) 10%.
(c) 14%.
(d) 2%.

2. 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) Get the attention of the referee.
(b) Get off the field.
(c) Plead for a penalty.
(d) Call for his mother.

3. What kind of specialist is Joseph LeDoux?
(a) Psychologist.
(b) Neuroscientist.
(c) Sociologist.
(d) Psychiatrist.

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

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?
(a) Robert Rosenthal.
(b) Ted Huston.
(c) William Stern.
(d) Robert Levenson.

Short Answer 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?

2. According to the author in “Part Three: Chapter 9, “Intimate Enemies,” boys honor independence while girls treasure what?

3. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi refers to a state of high concentration, self-forgetfulness, and mild ecstasy as being what?

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

5. Dr. Antonio Damasio studied patients who suffered damage to what?

(see the answer key)

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