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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The left and right pre-frontal lobes of the brain’s cortex balance the emotional responses of what?
(a) The olfactory lobe.
(b) The neocortex.
(c) The amygdala.
(d) The hippocampus.

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

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

5. The neocortex is the "seat of” what, according to the author in Part One: Chapter 1, “What Are Emotions For?”
(a) Empathy.
(b) Anger.
(c) Thought.
(d) Language.

Short Answer Questions

1. Venting anger generally does what, according to the author in Part Two: Chapter 5, “Passion's Slaves”?

2. Psychologist C. R. Snyder works at what university?

3. Dr. Antonio Damasio labels what are commonly known as “gut feelings” with what term?

4. According to the author in Part Two: Chapter 5, “Passion's Slaves,” anger, if not cut off, will fuel itself into what?

5. John Mayer is a psychologist at what institution?

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