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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does “IQ” stand for?
(a) Insomnia Quotient.
(b) Indirect Question.
(c) Infinity Question.
(d) Intelligence Quotient.

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

3. What is the first part of the human fetal brain to develop?
(a) The amygdala.
(b) The hippocampus.
(c) The neocortex.
(d) The brainstem.

4. About how many years ago did mammals develop a neocortex?
(a) 20 million.
(b) 100 million.
(c) 400,000.
(d) 2,000.

5. 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 hippocampus.
(d) The amygdala.

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of the brain interprets the world through the sense of smell?

2. 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?

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

4. What kind of specialist is Joseph LeDoux?

5. What is the specialization of Howard Gardner?

(see the answer key)

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