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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What psychologist developed a test for empathy called the Profile of Nonverbal Sensitivity?
(a) Thomas Borkovec.
(b) Paul Ekman.
(c) Ulf Dimberg.
(d) Robert Rosenthal.

2. What term refers to a learning disability in reading nonverbal messages?
(a) Dyssemia.
(b) Dyscalculia.
(c) Dyspraxia.
(d) Dyslexia.

3. According to the author in Part Two: Chapter 5, “Passion's Slaves,” balancing the extremes of emotion leads to a state of well-being, or what the early Christian church called what?
(a) Rationality.
(b) Exaggeration.
(c) Temperance.
(d) Empathy.

4. Alexithymia is a term coined by what psychotherapist in 1972?
(a) Thomas Borkovec.
(b) Lewis Terman.
(c) Peter Sifneos.
(d) Bruce McEven.

5. Dr. David Spiegel studied women in the advanced stage of what disease?
(a) Alzheimer's.
(b) Breast cancer.
(c) AIDS.
(d) Glaucoma.

Short Answer Questions

1. Venting anger generally does what, according to the author in Part Two: Chapter 5, “Passion's Slaves”?

2. Who found that husbands find disagreements more stressful and therefore have a lower threshold for flooding leading them to stonewall as a protective defense?

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

4. The neocortex in humans is _____ than in other species.

5. According to the author in Part Two: Chapter 5, “Passion's Slaves,” anger, if not cut off, will fuel itself into what?

(see the answer key)

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