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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The left and right pre-frontal lobes of the brain’s cortex balance the emotional responses of what?
(a) The amygdala.
(b) The hippocampus.
(c) The olfactory lobe.
(d) The neocortex.

2. Dr. Antonio Damasio studied patients who suffered damage to what?
(a) Their prefrontal-amygdala circuit.
(b) The brainstem.
(c) The neocortex.
(d) The limbic system.

3. According to the author, we cannot control when an emotion strikes or which emotion will strike, but we can control what?
(a) When to have no emotion at all.
(b) The length of the distressing emotion.
(c) The intensity of that emotion.
(d) The switch to a different emotion.

4. Dolf Zillmann is a psychologist at what university?
(a) Duke University.
(b) The University of Alabama.
(c) Columbia University.
(d) Yale University.

5. For what publication did Daniel Goleman write for twelve years, specializing in psychology and brain sciences?
(a) The Chicago Tribune.
(b) The San Francisco Chronicle.
(c) The Denver Post.
(d) The New York Times.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to being aware of one's mood and one's thoughts about that mood at the same time?

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

3. According to the author in Part Two: Chapter 6, “The Master Aptitude,” the superior achievement of Asian-Americans comes more from what than from IQ?

4. Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi works at what university?

5. What does “DSM” refer to?

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