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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Dr. Antonio Damasio works at the College of Medicine at what university?
(a) Pennsylvania State University.
(b) Rutgers University.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) The University of Iowa.

2. 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 amygdala.
(c) The neocortex.
(d) The olfactory lobe.

3. Alexithymia refers to a state of deficiency in understanding, processing, or describing what?
(a) Confidence.
(b) Relatedness.
(c) Thought.
(d) Emotions.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. The left pre-frontal lobe of the brain can turn off or dampen what emotion?

5. Howard Gardner works at what institution?

(see the answer key)

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