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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of specialist is Joseph LeDoux?
(a) Psychologist.
(b) Neuroscientist.
(c) Sociologist.
(d) Psychiatrist.

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

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

4. What refers to being aware of one's mood and one's thoughts about that mood at the same time?
(a) Neural hijacking.
(b) Working memory.
(c) Self-awareness.
(d) Objective thinking.

5. Emotions, like instincts, have helped humans survive by doing what, according to the author in Part One: Chapter 1, “What Are Emotions For?”
(a) Driving them to action.
(b) Portraying strength.
(c) Encouraging relationships.
(d) Creating a universal language for all humans.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dolf Zillmann gives two methods for diffusing anger. What is the first?

2. What does “EI” stand for?

3. In 1916, at Stanford University, what psychologist released a revised examination which became known as the "Stanford–Binet test"?

4. 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?

5. Decision making involves balancing the emotional and the what?

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