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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Dolf Zillmann found that the universal trigger for anger is what?
(a) A sense of endangerment.
(b) A sense of entitlement.
(c) A sense of empathy.
(d) A sense of enlightenment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dolf Zillmann is a psychologist at what university?

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?

3. Dr. Antonio Damasio labels what are commonly known as “gut feelings” with what term?

4. John Mayer names three styles of handling one’s emotions. What is the first?

5. Alexithymia refers to a state of deficiency in understanding, processing, or describing what?

(see the answer key)

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