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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Neural hijacking.
(b) Anger management.
(c) Objective thinking.
(d) Fear conditioning.

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

3. Emotions, like instincts, have helped humans survive by doing what, according to the author in Part One: Chapter 1, “What Are Emotions For?”
(a) Driving them to action.
(b) Creating a universal language for all humans.
(c) Encouraging relationships.
(d) Portraying strength.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What component of the brain remembers facts and context?

4. What German psychologist coined the term “IQ”?

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

(see the answer key)

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