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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In philosophy, what is the characteristic of any action, belief, or desire that makes their choice a necessity?
(a) Confidence.
(b) Attunement.
(c) Relatedness.
(d) Rationality.

2. Howard Gardner works at what institution?
(a) Claremont Graduate University.
(b) The University of Wisconsin.
(c) The Harvard School of Education.
(d) Emory University.

3. What refers to being aware of one's mood and one's thoughts about that mood at the same time?
(a) Objective thinking.
(b) Neural hijacking.
(c) Self-awareness.
(d) Working memory.

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

5. What is the first part of the human fetal brain to develop?
(a) The amygdala.
(b) The brainstem.
(c) The hippocampus.
(d) The neocortex.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Daniel Goleman earn his Ph.D.?

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

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

4. John Mayer names three styles of handling one’s emotions. Which of these experience and control their emotions to that they remain on an even keel?

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

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