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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the specialization of Howard Gardner?
(a) Neuroscience.
(b) Developmental psychology.
(c) Marriage counseling.
(d) Prison psychology.

2. 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?
(a) Dysphoria.
(b) Depression.
(c) Narcissistic personality disorder.
(d) Bipolar disorder

3. For what publication did Daniel Goleman write for twelve years, specializing in psychology and brain sciences?
(a) The New York Times.
(b) The Chicago Tribune.
(c) The Denver Post.
(d) The San Francisco Chronicle.

4. What surrounds the brain stem like a ring providing improved tools for survival such as learning and memory?
(a) The amygdala.
(b) The neocortex.
(c) The olfactory lobe.
(d) The limbic system.

5. What term refers to the state when the amygdala declares a state of emergency and drives the rest of the brain to respond to that emergency immediately?
(a) Anger management.
(b) Fear conditioning.
(c) Objective thinking.
(d) Neural hijacking.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dr. Antonio Damasio works at the College of Medicine at what university?

2. What kind of specialist is Joseph LeDoux?

3. Psychologists Daniel Weinberger and Richard Davidson researched what group of people who appear to tune-out their emotions?

4. Dolf Zillmann gives two methods for diffusing anger. What is the second?

5. Emotions, like instincts, have helped humans survive by doing what, according to the author in Part One: Chapter 1, “What Are Emotions For?”

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