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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) New York University.
(b) The University of Wisconsin.
(c) The University of Washington.
(d) Pennsylvania State University.

2. 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) Managing emotions.
(d) Handling relationships.

3. In philosophy, what is the characteristic of any action, belief, or desire that makes their choice a necessity?
(a) Rationality.
(b) Relatedness.
(c) Confidence.
(d) Attunement.

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

5. What is the specialization of Howard Gardner?
(a) Developmental psychology.
(b) Neuroscience.
(c) Marriage counseling.
(d) Prison psychology.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

4. What is the first part of the human fetal brain to develop?

5. The neocortex is the "seat of” what, according to the author in Part One: Chapter 1, “What Are Emotions For?”

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