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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What test did Walter Mischel devise in the 1960s?
(a) The Harvard peanut experiment.
(b) The Rutgers chicken experiment.
(c) The Columbia orange experiment.
(d) The Stanford marshmallow experiment.

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

3. In 1916, at Stanford University, what psychologist released a revised examination which became known as the "Stanford–Binet test"?
(a) Robert Levenson.
(b) Bruce McEven.
(c) Robert Hare.
(d) Lewis Terman.

4. About how many years ago did mammals develop a neocortex?
(a) 100 million.
(b) 400,000.
(c) 20 million.
(d) 2,000.

5. What psychologist states that psychopaths may lack compassion and empathy for others because they themselves do not feel fear and cannot anticipate consequences in Part Two: Chapter 7, “The Roots of Empathy”?
(a) Ted Huston.
(b) T. Berry Brazelton.
(c) C. R. Snyder.
(d) Robert Hare.

Short Answer Questions

1. What percentage or more of an emotional message is communicated non-verbally?

2. What notable book did psychiatrist Daniel Stern write?

3. John Mayer names three styles of handling one’s emotions. What is the first?

4. Emotionally abused children develop keen skills in interpreting the moods of others as a means of what, according to the author in Part Two: Chapter 7, “The Roots of Empathy”?

5. Emotionally neglected children have a tendency to do what, according to the author in Part Two: Chapter 7, “The Roots of Empathy”?

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