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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Joseph LeDoux works at the Center for Neural Science at what institution?
(a) The University of Wisconsin.
(b) Pennsylvania State University.
(c) New York University.
(d) The University of Washington.

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

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

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

5. Where did Daniel Goleman earn his Ph.D.?
(a) The University of Washington.
(b) Emory University.
(c) The University of Kansas.
(d) Harvard University.

Short Answer Questions

1. Psychologists Peter Salovey and John Mayer define emotional intelligence into five categories. What is the third category?

2. Decision making involves balancing the emotional and the what?

3. Joseph LeDoux found that sensory signals from the eye or ear go to the thalamus and then to what?

4. About how many years ago did mammals develop a neocortex?

5. Psychologists Peter Salovey and John Mayer define emotional intelligence into five categories. What is the first category?

(see the answer key)

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