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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) 76%.
(b) 18%.
(c) 52%.
(d) 37%.

2. What test did Walter Mischel devise in the 1960s?
(a) The Harvard peanut experiment.
(b) The Rutgers chicken experiment.
(c) The Stanford marshmallow experiment.
(d) The Columbia orange experiment.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When was Daniel Goleman born?

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

5. Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi works at what university?

(see the answer key)

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