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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In philosophy, what is the characteristic of any action, belief, or desire that makes their choice a necessity?
(a) Confidence.
(b) Attunement.
(c) Relatedness.
(d) Rationality.

2. What is the first part of the human fetal brain to develop?
(a) The hippocampus.
(b) The neocortex.
(c) The brainstem.
(d) The amygdala.

3. 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) Objective thinking.
(b) Fear conditioning.
(c) Neural hijacking.
(d) Anger management.

4. Who are the psychologists who first published the concept of emotional intelligence in 1990?
(a) Robert Rosenthal and Judith Hall.
(b) Peter Salovey and John D. Mayer.
(c) Judith Hall and Lizabeth Roemer.
(d) Jerome Kagan and Robert Rosenthal.

5. John Mayer names three styles of handling one’s emotions. What is the first?
(a) The accepting.
(b) The self-aware.
(c) The justified.
(d) The engulfed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hilda Bruch pioneered the study of eating disorders that identified the two-part cause. What was the first part?

2. In the doctor patient relationship, the doctor is trained to treat disease and injury but not what, according to the author in Part Three: Chapter 11, “Mind and Medicine”?

3. The neocortex in humans is _____ than in other species.

4. Dr. Antonio Damasio studied patients who suffered damage to what?

5. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi refers to a state of high concentration, self-forgetfulness, and mild ecstasy as being what?

(see the answer key)

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