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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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 justified.
(b) The self-aware.
(c) The engulfed.
(d) The accepting.

4. What is medically recognized as a mental and emotional condition in which a person experiences intense feelings of depression, discontent and indifference to the world around them?
(a) Depression.
(b) Dysphoria.
(c) Bipolar disorder
(d) Narcissistic personality disorder.

5. What are released by the adrenal glands as a reaction to stress, raising blood pressure, heart rate and the breathing rate and increasing muscle strength in a state of alertness?
(a) Catecholamines.
(b) Proteins.
(c) Enzymes.
(d) Carbohydrates.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dr. Antonio Damasio studied patients who suffered damage to what?

2. In a study by psychologist Martin Seligman, salesmen who were optimists sold how much more insurance in their first two years on the job than did pessimists?

3. According to the author, we cannot control when an emotion strikes or which emotion will strike, but we can control what?

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

5. What is the specialization of Howard Gardner?

(see the answer key)

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