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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Decision making involves balancing the emotional and the what?
(a) Verbal.
(b) Scientific.
(c) Rational.
(d) Factual.

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

3. What German psychologist coined the term “IQ”?
(a) Leslie Brody.
(b) William Stern.
(c) Daniel Weinberger.
(d) John Gottman.

4. Alexithymia refers to a state of deficiency in understanding, processing, or describing what?
(a) Relatedness.
(b) Thought.
(c) Emotions.
(d) Confidence.

5. What component of the brain remembers facts and context?
(a) The amygdala.
(b) The hippocampus.
(c) The neocortex.
(d) The olfactory lobe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Worriers believe they are planning ahead to ward off danger, but in fact, the act of worrying prevents them from what, according to the author?

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

3. What type of specialist is Dr. Antonio Damasio?

4. The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test was originated in what country?

5. Alexithymia is a term coined by what psychotherapist in 1972?

(see the answer key)

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