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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Dolf Zillmann found that the universal trigger for anger is what?
(a) A sense of endangerment.
(b) A sense of empathy.
(c) A sense of entitlement.
(d) A sense of enlightenment.

2. When was Alfred Binet born?
(a) 1888.
(b) 1813.
(c) 1905.
(d) 1857.

3. The neocortex is the "seat of” what, according to the author in Part One: Chapter 1, “What Are Emotions For?”
(a) Empathy.
(b) Anger.
(c) Thought.
(d) Language.

4. Psychologists Daniel Weinberger and Richard Davidson researched what group of people who appear to tune-out their emotions?
(a) Distressors.
(b) Depressors.
(c) Repressors.
(d) Aggressors.

5. The author refers to EI as which of the following?
(a) A meta-ability.
(b) An adverse reaction.
(c) A clinical disease.
(d) An inherited gene.

Short Answer Questions

1. Emotions, like instincts, have helped humans survive by doing what, according to the author in Part One: Chapter 1, “What Are Emotions For?”

2. What German psychologist coined the term “IQ”?

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

4. According to the author in Part Two: Chapter 5, “Passion's Slaves,” anger, if not cut off, will fuel itself into what?

5. What kind of specialist is Joseph LeDoux?

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