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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of specialist is Joseph LeDoux?
(a) Psychiatrist.
(b) Neuroscientist.
(c) Psychologist.
(d) Sociologist.

2. What name refers to the groups of nuclei in the limbic system which store emotional memory assigning meaning to feelings?
(a) The olfactory lobe.
(b) The neocortex.
(c) The amygdala.
(d) The brainstem.

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

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

5. The neocortex is the "seat of” what, according to the author in Part One: Chapter 1, “What Are Emotions For?”
(a) Language.
(b) Thought.
(c) Empathy.
(d) Anger.

Short Answer Questions

1. Joseph LeDoux works at the Center for Neural Science at what institution?

2. What does “IQ” stand for?

3. What surrounds the brain stem like a ring providing improved tools for survival such as learning and memory?

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

5. When was Daniel Goleman born?

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