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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Alfred Binet born?
(a) 1905.
(b) 1857.
(c) 1813.
(d) 1888.

2. John Mayer names three styles of handling one’s emotions. Which of these experience and control their emotions to that they remain on an even keel?
(a) The self-aware.
(b) The justified.
(c) The accepting.
(d) The engulfed.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Howard Gardner works at what institution?

2. Where did Daniel Goleman earn his Ph.D.?

3. Alexithymia refers to a state of deficiency in understanding, processing, or describing what?

4. About how many years ago did mammals develop a neocortex?

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

(see the answer key)

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