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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Psychologists Peter Salovey and John Mayer define emotional intelligence into five categories. What is the third category?
(a) Motivating one's self.
(b) Managing emotions.
(c) Knowing one’s emotions.
(d) Handling relationships.

2. Dolf Zillmann gives two methods for diffusing anger. What is the second?
(a) Remove yourself from the setting that triggers the anger.
(b) Challenge the angry thoughts before taking action.
(c) Release the anger in a constructive manner.
(d) Find someone to council you about the anger.

3. Venting anger generally does what, according to the author in Part Two: Chapter 5, “Passion's Slaves”?
(a) Justifies it.
(b) Acknowledges it.
(c) Reduces it.
(d) Fuels it.

4. What, like other chronic negative emotions, increases the risks of complications during recovery from illness or surgery, according to the author in “Part Three: Chapter 11, Mind and Medicine”?
(a) Hypomania.
(b) Depression.
(c) Schizophrenia.
(d) Dyspareunia.

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

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

3. According to Dr. Charles Nemeroff, the sufferers of PTSD experience a numbing of pain thanks to a higher secretion of what?

4. What surrounds the brain stem like a ring providing improved tools for survival such as learning and memory?

5. At what institution does psychologist Bruce McEven work?

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