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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Psychologist C. R. Snyder works at what university?
(a) The University of Washington.
(b) Emory University.
(c) The University of Kansas.
(d) Harvard University.

2. Joseph LeDoux works at the Center for Neural Science at what institution?
(a) The University of Wisconsin.
(b) The University of Washington.
(c) Pennsylvania State University.
(d) New York University.

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

4. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi refers to a state of high concentration, self-forgetfulness, and mild ecstasy as being what?
(a) “Hypersensitive.”
(b) “On par.”
(c) “In tune.”
(d) “In flow.”

5. Alexithymia is a term coined by what psychotherapist in 1972?
(a) Lewis Terman.
(b) Peter Sifneos.
(c) Bruce McEven.
(d) Thomas Borkovec.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. The author refers to EI as which of the following?

5. Fear arouses the body to fight or flight by doing what within the body?

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