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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. T. Berry Brazelton is a pediatrician from what institution?
(a) The University of Alabama.
(b) Yale University.
(c) The University of Kansas.
(d) Harvard University.

2. Fear arouses the body to fight or flight by doing what within the body?
(a) Sending blood to the major muscles.
(b) Decreasing brain activity.
(c) Increasing awareness.
(d) Causing respiration to decrease.

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

4. 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) C. R. Snyder.
(d) Robert Hare.

5. Dr. John Gottman and a colleague identified the three most toxic parenting styles. Which is the third discussed in Part Four: Chapter 12, “The Family Crucible”?
(a) Showing no respect for the child’s feelings.
(b) Over acknowledgment of feelings.
(c) Being too laissez-faire.
(d) Ignoring feelings altogether.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What psychologist at the University of Texas summarizes his research by reporting that women want to talk to make an emotional connection, but men want to make a connection by doing things together?

3. Alexithymia is a term coined by what psychotherapist in 1972?

4. What term refers to a learning disability in reading nonverbal messages?

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

(see the answer key)

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