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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Emotionally neglected children have a tendency to do what, according to the author in Part Two: Chapter 7, “The Roots of Empathy”?
(a) Build relationships too early.
(b) Overly attach themselves to others.
(c) Disconnect from others.
(d) Attain higher standards than others.

2. Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi works at what university?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) Rutgers University.
(c) Stanford University.
(d) Claremont Graduate University.

3. Dr. David Spiegel is the Associate Chair of Psychiatry at what institution?
(a) The University of Kansas.
(b) The University of Wisconsin.
(c) Stanford University.
(d) Rutgers University.

4. Dr. Judith Lewis Herman discovered three vital stages for retraining the brain of people suffering from PTSD. What is the third stage discussed in Part Four: Chapter 13, “Trauma and Emotional Relearning”?
(a) Understanding the triggers and responses.
(b) Retelling and reconstructing the trauma in a safe environment.
(c) Acting out the trauma in a real world environment.
(d) Mourning the trauma.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What component of the brain remembers facts and context?

2. The author refers to EI as which of the following?

3. What psychologist discovered that the immune system is not separate from the brain, but connected to it through the part of the brain that regulates emotion?

4. In the doctor patient relationship, the doctor is trained to treat disease and injury but not what, according to the author in Part Three: Chapter 11, “Mind and Medicine”?

5. Dolf Zillmann gives two methods for diffusing anger. What is the second?

(see the answer key)

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