1. Walter Mischel’s test in the 1960s measured what?
(a) Post-traumatic stress disorder.
(b) Childhood obesity.
(c) Marriages and arguments.
(d) Deferred gratification.

2. Psychologists Lizabeth Roemer and Thomas Borkovec work at what university?
(a) Yale University.
(b) The University of Iowa.
(c) New York University.
(d) Pennsylvania State University.

3. Howard Gardner works at what institution?
(a) The University of Wisconsin.
(b) Claremont Graduate University.
(c) Emory University.
(d) The Harvard School of Education.

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

5. What part of the brain interprets the world through the sense of smell?
(a) The olfactory lobe.
(b) The brainstem.
(c) The neocortex.
(d) The amygdala.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Dolf Zillmann gives two methods for diffusing anger. What is the second?

3. John Mayer names three styles of handling one’s emotions. What is the second?

4. Dolf Zillmann found that the universal trigger for anger is what?

5. Dolf Zillmann gives two methods for diffusing anger. What is the first?

(see the answer key)

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