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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to the author, we cannot control when an emotion strikes or which emotion will strike, but we can control what?
(a) The length of the distressing emotion.
(b) When to have no emotion at all.
(c) The intensity of that emotion.
(d) The switch to a different emotion.

3. What does “IQ” stand for?
(a) Intelligence Quotient.
(b) Insomnia Quotient.
(c) Infinity Question.
(d) Indirect Question.

4. The left and right pre-frontal lobes of the brain’s cortex balance the emotional responses of what?
(a) The neocortex.
(b) The hippocampus.
(c) The olfactory lobe.
(d) The amygdala.

5. The author refers to EI as which of the following?
(a) An adverse reaction.
(b) An inherited gene.
(c) A clinical disease.
(d) A meta-ability.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first part of the human fetal brain to develop?

2. Psychologists Peter Salovey and John Mayer define emotional intelligence into five categories. What is the third category?

3. 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?

4. Daniel Goleman currently co-directs the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations at what university?

5. In 1916, at Stanford University, what psychologist released a revised examination which became known as the "Stanford–Binet test"?

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