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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What name refers to the groups of nuclei in the limbic system which store emotional memory assigning meaning to feelings?
(a) The olfactory lobe.
(b) The brainstem.
(c) The neocortex.
(d) The amygdala.

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

3. During an emotional hijacking, emotions interfere with what, also known as the ability to take in and process information?
(a) Intelligence Quotient.
(b) Working memory.
(c) Verbal development.
(d) Somatic markers.

4. The left pre-frontal lobe of the brain can turn off or dampen what emotion?
(a) Empathy.
(b) Distress.
(c) Anger.
(d) Love.

5. Worriers believe they are planning ahead to ward off danger, but in fact, the act of worrying prevents them from what, according to the author?
(a) Fight or flight.
(b) Neural hijacking.
(c) Self-awareness.
(d) Objective thinking.

Short Answer Questions

1. Alexithymia refers to a state of deficiency in understanding, processing, or describing what?

2. What is the first part of the human fetal brain to develop?

3. Daniel Goleman currently co-directs the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations at what university?

4. Dolf Zillmann is a psychologist at what university?

5. What is the specialization of Howard Gardner?

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