1. The author refers to EI as which of the following?
(a) A meta-ability.
(b) An inherited gene.
(c) An adverse reaction.
(d) A clinical disease.

2. Psychologists Peter Salovey and John Mayer define emotional intelligence into five categories. What is the third category?
(a) Handling relationships.
(b) Managing emotions.
(c) Motivating one's self.
(d) Knowing one’s emotions.

3. What researcher argues that the roots of morality come from empathy?
(a) Jerome Kagan.
(b) Richard Davidson.
(c) Robert Hare.
(d) Martin Hoffman.

4. What refers to being aware of one's mood and one's thoughts about that mood at the same time?
(a) Neural hijacking.
(b) Self-awareness.
(c) Working memory.
(d) Objective thinking.

5. According to the author in Part Two: Chapter 6, “The Master Aptitude,” the superior achievement of Asian-Americans comes more from what than from IQ?
(a) Politics and religion.
(b) Culture and music.
(c) Genetics and environment.
(d) Effort and determination.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. Where did Dr. Charles Nemeroff earn his Ph.D. in neurobiology?

3. Aside from social changes, the glue that holds a couple together is what, according to the author in Part Three: Chapter 9, “Intimate Enemies”?

4. Dr. Antonio Damasio studied patients who suffered damage to what?

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

(see the answer key)

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