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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What type of specialist is Dr. Antonio Damasio?
(a) Neurologist.
(b) Biologist.
(c) Physicist.
(d) Arborist.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Emotions, like instincts, have helped humans survive by doing what, according to the author in Part One: Chapter 1, “What Are Emotions For?”

2. What does “IQ” stand for?

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

4. What name refers to the groups of nuclei in the limbic system which store emotional memory assigning meaning to feelings?

5. What kind of specialist is Joseph LeDoux?

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