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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the specialization of Howard Gardner?
(a) Neuroscience.
(b) Prison psychology.
(c) Marriage counseling.
(d) Developmental psychology.

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

3. Joseph LeDoux found that sensory signals from the eye or ear go to the thalamus and then to what?
(a) The left pre-frontal lobe.
(b) The olfactory lobe.
(c) The neocortex.
(d) The amygdala.

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

5. Fear arouses the body to fight or flight by doing what within the body?
(a) Causing respiration to decrease.
(b) Decreasing brain activity.
(c) Sending blood to the major muscles.
(d) Increasing awareness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Walter Mischel works as a psychologist at what university?

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

3. During an emotional hijacking, emotions interfere with what, also known as the ability to take in and process information?

4. According to the author in Part Two: Chapter 5, “Passion's Slaves,” balancing the extremes of emotion leads to a state of well-being, or what the early Christian church called what?

5. For what publication did Daniel Goleman write for twelve years, specializing in psychology and brain sciences?

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