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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What surrounds the brain stem like a ring providing improved tools for survival such as learning and memory?
(a) The olfactory lobe.
(b) The limbic system.
(c) The neocortex.
(d) The amygdala.

2. T. Berry Brazelton is a pediatrician from what institution?
(a) Yale University.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) The University of Kansas.
(d) The University of Alabama.

3. What release is a crucial component of the fight-or-flight response of the sympathetic nervous system?
(a) Adrenaline.
(b) Oxygen.
(c) Carbon Dioxide.
(d) Carbohydrate.

4. 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) T. Berry Brazelton.
(b) C. R. Snyder.
(c) Ted Huston.
(d) Robert Hare.

5. Who studied married couples and found that they had the most accurate empathy when their physical responses were in synch?
(a) Paul Ekman.
(b) Howard Gardner.
(c) Robert Levenson.
(d) Dolf Zillmann.

Short Answer Questions

1. T. Berry Brazelton found through research that a child's readiness for learning is based on seven key factors. Which is the third?

2. Dr. Charles Nemeroff is best known for his work in treating what?

3. Dolf Zillmann gives two methods for diffusing anger. What is the second?

4. What part of the brain interprets the world through the sense of smell?

5. According to researchers in “Part Three: Chapter 9, “Intimate Enemies,” girls learn what faster than boys, and therefore become more skilled at expressing and reading emotions?

(see the answer key)

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