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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what publication did Daniel Goleman write for twelve years, specializing in psychology and brain sciences?
(a) The San Francisco Chronicle.
(b) The New York Times.
(c) The Chicago Tribune.
(d) The Denver Post.

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

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

4. The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test was originated in what country?
(a) Russia.
(b) Norway.
(c) Germany.
(d) France.

5. Joseph LeDoux found that sensory signals from the eye or ear go to the thalamus and then to what?
(a) The olfactory lobe.
(b) The left pre-frontal lobe.
(c) The amygdala.
(d) The neocortex.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Alfred Binet born?

2. What term refers to the state when the amygdala declares a state of emergency and drives the rest of the brain to respond to that emergency immediately?

3. The author refers to EI as which of the following?

4. The left and right pre-frontal lobes of the brain’s cortex balance the emotional responses of what?

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

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