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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. At what age can children separate their own feelings from the feelings of others, according to the author in Part Two: Chapter 7, “The Roots of Empathy”?
(a) 5 ½.
(b) 2 ½.
(c) 7.
(d) 4.

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

4. Leslie Brody and who summarize research on the emotional development of boys and girls in Part Three: Chapter 9, “Intimate Enemies”?
(a) Harry Levinson.
(b) Robert Levenson.
(c) C. R. Snyder.
(d) Judith Hall.

5. What term refers to the state when the amygdala declares a state of emergency and drives the rest of the brain to respond to that emergency immediately?
(a) Neural hijacking.
(b) Anger management.
(c) Objective thinking.
(d) Fear conditioning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of specialist is Joseph LeDoux?

2. According to the author in Part Two: Chapter 5, “Passion's Slaves,” balancing the extremes of emotion leads to a state of well-being, or what the early Christian church called what?

3. Psychologist Bruce McEven showed in studies that what weaken the immune system, increasing vulnerability to diabetes, ulcers, and the spread of cancer?

4. In the study at Bell Labs, the star performers were identified as the ones who know the value of building what, according to the author in Part Three: Chapter 10, “Managing with Heart”?

5. The left pre-frontal lobe of the brain can turn off or dampen what emotion?

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