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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. John Mayer names three styles of handling one’s emotions. What is the third?
(a) The justified.
(b) The engulfed.
(c) The accepting.
(d) The self-aware.

2. About how many years ago did mammals develop a neocortex?
(a) 20 million.
(b) 2,000.
(c) 400,000.
(d) 100 million.

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

4. Daniel Goleman currently co-directs the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations at what university?
(a) New York University.
(b) Rutgers University.
(c) The University of Washington.
(d) The University of Alabama.

5. Decision making involves balancing the emotional and the what?
(a) Factual.
(b) Rational.
(c) Scientific.
(d) Verbal.

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. John Mayer is a psychologist at what institution?

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

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

5. What kind of specialist is Joseph LeDoux?

(see the answer key)

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