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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. John Mayer names three styles of handling one’s emotions. Which of these experience and control their emotions to that they remain on an even keel?
(a) The accepting.
(b) The justified.
(c) The engulfed.
(d) The self-aware.

4. When was Daniel Goleman born?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1946.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1927.

5. Who studied married couples and found that they had the most accurate empathy when their physical responses were in synch?
(a) Howard Gardner.
(b) Robert Levenson.
(c) Dolf Zillmann.
(d) Paul Ekman.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, we cannot control when an emotion strikes or which emotion will strike, but we can control what?

2. What name refers to the groups of nuclei in the limbic system which store emotional memory assigning meaning to feelings?

3. Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi works at what university?

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

5. Alexithymics may suffer from a disconnection between the limbic system and what?

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