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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Alfred Binet born?
(a) 1857.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1813.
(d) 1905.

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

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

4. Dolf Zillmann gives two methods for diffusing anger. What is the second?
(a) Challenge the angry thoughts before taking action.
(b) Remove yourself from the setting that triggers the anger.
(c) Find someone to council you about the anger.
(d) Release the anger in a constructive manner.

5. Psychologists Peter Salovey and John Mayer define emotional intelligence into five categories. What is the second category?
(a) Knowing one’s emotions.
(b) Handling relationships.
(c) Motivating one's self.
(d) Managing emotions.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What release is a crucial component of the fight-or-flight response of the sympathetic nervous system?

3. 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?

4. Dolf Zillmann is a psychologist at what university?

5. Dr. Antonio Damasio studied patients who suffered damage to what?

(see the answer key)

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