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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) 1813.
(c) 1888.
(d) 1857.

2. The left pre-frontal lobe of the brain can turn off or dampen what emotion?
(a) Love.
(b) Distress.
(c) Anger.
(d) Empathy.

3. What surrounds the brain stem like a ring providing improved tools for survival such as learning and memory?
(a) The limbic system.
(b) The amygdala.
(c) The olfactory lobe.
(d) The neocortex.

4. What does “DSM” refer to?
(a) Damaging Social Manners.
(b) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
(c) Disease Spreading Material.
(d) Depression and Sleep Apnea Medicine.

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

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. In philosophy, what is the characteristic of any action, belief, or desire that makes their choice a necessity?

3. The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test was originated in what country?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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