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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Empathy is learned in infancy through what process?
(a) Crying.
(b) Instant gratification.
(c) Immediate response.
(d) Motor mimicry.

2. Fear arouses the body to fight or flight by doing what within the body?
(a) Increasing awareness.
(b) Decreasing brain activity.
(c) Sending blood to the major muscles.
(d) Causing respiration to decrease.

3. What part of the brain interprets the world through the sense of smell?
(a) The neocortex.
(b) The olfactory lobe.
(c) The amygdala.
(d) The brainstem.

4. Daniel Goleman currently co-directs the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations at what university?
(a) Rutgers University.
(b) The University of Washington.
(c) New York University.
(d) The University of Alabama.

5. Emotionally neglected children have a tendency to do what, according to the author in Part Two: Chapter 7, “The Roots of Empathy”?
(a) Overly attach themselves to others.
(b) Build relationships too early.
(c) Attain higher standards than others.
(d) Disconnect from others.

Short Answer Questions

1. Alexithymia is a term coined by what psychotherapist in 1972?

2. Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi works at what university?

3. Psychologists Daniel Weinberger and Richard Davidson researched what group of people who appear to tune-out their emotions?

4. Psychiatrist Daniel Stern identified the process of reinforcing empathy in children as what?

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

(see the answer key)

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