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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Dr. Charles Nemeroff born?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1949.
(d) 1964.

2. What psychologist states that psychopaths may lack compassion and empathy for others because they themselves do not feel fear and cannot anticipate consequences in Part Two: Chapter 7, “The Roots of Empathy”?
(a) T. Berry Brazelton.
(b) Ted Huston.
(c) Robert Hare.
(d) C. R. Snyder.

3. Psychologist Richard Davidson discovered a link between temperament and what?
(a) Pre-frontal lobe activity.
(b) The hippocampus.
(c) The olfactory lobe.
(d) The neocortex.

4. Who studied married couples and found that they had the most accurate empathy when their physical responses were in synch?
(a) Dolf Zillmann.
(b) Howard Gardner.
(c) Paul Ekman.
(d) Robert Levenson.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. John Mayer is a psychologist at what institution?

3. Joseph LeDoux found that sensory signals from the eye or ear go to the thalamus and then to what?

4. Marriages that began in 1890 suffered a divorce rate of what percentage, according to the author in Part Three: Chapter 9, “Intimate Enemies”?

5. The left and right pre-frontal lobes of the brain’s cortex balance the emotional responses of what?

(see the answer key)

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