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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Dr. Antonio Damasio works at the College of Medicine at what university?
(a) Pennsylvania State University.
(b) Rutgers University.
(c) The University of Iowa.
(d) Harvard University.

2. At what age can children separate their own feelings from the feelings of others, according to the author in Part Two: Chapter 7, “The Roots of Empathy”?
(a) 2 ½.
(b) 4.
(c) 5 ½.
(d) 7.

3. According to the author in Part Three: Chapter 10, “Managing with Heart,” one management consultant stated that “stress makes people” what?
(a) Stupid.
(b) Mean.
(c) Take risks.
(d) Crazy.

4. Children who are disciplined irregularly or based on the mood of the parents learn what that can follow them through life, according to the author in Part Four: Chapter 12, “The Family Crucible”?
(a) Confidence.
(b) Distress.
(c) Aggression.
(d) Empathy.

5. Walter Mischel’s test in the 1960s measured what?
(a) Childhood obesity.
(b) Post-traumatic stress disorder.
(c) Deferred gratification.
(d) Marriages and arguments.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to being aware of one's mood and one's thoughts about that mood at the same time?

2. Psychiatrist Daniel Stern identified the process of reinforcing empathy in children as what?

3. Jerome Kagan found four temperamental types that have different patterns of brain activity. What is the first described in Part Four: Chapter 14, “Temperament Is Not Destiny”?

4. Where did Daniel Goleman earn his Ph.D.?

5. Abuse warps a child's perceptions about what, according to the author in Part Four: Chapter 12, “The Family Crucible”?

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