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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Dr. Antonio Damasio works at the College of Medicine at what university?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) Pennsylvania State University.
(c) The University of Iowa.
(d) Rutgers University.

2. 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.

3. Dr. Antonio Damasio labels what are commonly known as “gut feelings” with what term?
(a) Emotions.
(b) Working memory.
(c) Informal networks.
(d) Somatic markers.

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

5. What type of specialist is Dr. Antonio Damasio?
(a) Biologist.
(b) Arborist.
(c) Physicist.
(d) Neurologist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to being aware of one's mood and one's thoughts about that mood at the same time?

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

3. What kind of specialist is Joseph LeDoux?

4. The left pre-frontal lobe of the brain can turn off or dampen what emotion?

5. Researcher Ulf Dimberg found that expressions of emotion are contagious with the transfer of mood coming from the more what person to others?

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