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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term refers to a learning disability in reading nonverbal messages?
(a) Dyssemia.
(b) Dyspraxia.
(c) Dyscalculia.
(d) Dyslexia.

2. The left pre-frontal lobe of the brain can turn off or dampen what emotion?
(a) Distress.
(b) Empathy.
(c) Anger.
(d) Love.

3. Alexithymia is a term coined by what psychotherapist in 1972?
(a) Thomas Borkovec.
(b) Lewis Terman.
(c) Peter Sifneos.
(d) Bruce McEven.

4. Walter Mischel’s test in the 1960s measured what?
(a) Marriages and arguments.
(b) Childhood obesity.
(c) Post-traumatic stress disorder.
(d) Deferred gratification.

5. What name refers to the groups of nuclei in the limbic system which store emotional memory assigning meaning to feelings?
(a) The neocortex.
(b) The amygdala.
(c) The brainstem.
(d) The olfactory lobe.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to researchers in “Part Three: Chapter 9, “Intimate Enemies,” girls learn what faster than boys, and therefore become more skilled at expressing and reading emotions?

3. Charisma combines four separate interpersonal intelligence components, according to what two psychologists discussed in Part Two: Chapter 8, “The Social Arts”?

4. During an emotional hijacking, emotions interfere with what, also known as the ability to take in and process information?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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