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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What German psychologist coined the term “IQ”?
(a) John Gottman.
(b) Leslie Brody.
(c) Daniel Weinberger.
(d) William Stern.

3. Charisma combines four separate interpersonal intelligence components, according to what two psychologists discussed in Part Two: Chapter 8, “The Social Arts”?
(a) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and T. Berry Brazelton.
(b) Thomas Hatch and Howard Gardner.
(c) Ted Huston and Martin Seligman.
(d) Ulf Dimberg and Peter Salovey.

4. John Mayer names three styles of handling one’s emotions. What is the first?
(a) The engulfed.
(b) The accepting.
(c) The self-aware.
(d) The justified.

5. What component of the brain remembers facts and context?
(a) The hippocampus.
(b) The neocortex.
(c) The amygdala.
(d) The olfactory lobe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dr. Judith Lewis Herman is a professor of clinical psychiatry at the Medical School of what institution?

2. The neocortex is the "seat of” what, according to the author in Part One: Chapter 1, “What Are Emotions For?”

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

4. Neuroscientists Thorsten Wiesel and David Hubel proved that the neurons unused in the brain will do what?

5. What release is a crucial component of the fight-or-flight response of the sympathetic nervous system?

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