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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Jerome Kagan found four temperamental types that have different patterns of brain activity. What is the second described in Part Four: Chapter 14, “Temperament Is Not Destiny”?
(a) Upbeat.
(b) Bold.
(c) Melancholy.
(d) Timid.

3. Dr. Judith Lewis Herman discovered three vital stages for retraining the brain of people suffering from PTSD. What is the first stage discussed in Part Four: Chapter 13, “Trauma and Emotional Relearning”?
(a) Acting out the trauma in a real world environment.
(b) Mourning the trauma.
(c) Retelling and reconstructing the trauma in a safe environment.
(d) Understanding the triggers and responses.

4. An example of the social skills of charisma is exemplified by a scenario with an elderly Japanese man calming who on a bus in Part Two: Chapter 8, “The Social Arts”?
(a) A hysterical mother.
(b) A violent felon.
(c) A rude teenager.
(d) A belligerent drunk.

5. Psychologists Daniel Weinberger and Richard Davidson researched what group of people who appear to tune-out their emotions?
(a) Aggressors.
(b) Depressors.
(c) Distressors.
(d) Repressors.

Short Answer Questions

1. Charisma combines four separate interpersonal intelligence components. What is the third?

2. Jerome Kagan found four temperamental types that have different patterns of brain activity. What is the third described in Part Four: Chapter 14, “Temperament Is Not Destiny”?

3. According to the author in Part Two: Chapter 6, “The Master Aptitude,” the superior achievement of Asian-Americans comes more from what than from IQ?

4. Who studied married couples and found that they had the most accurate empathy when their physical responses were in synch?

5. John Mayer names three styles of handling one’s emotions. What is the first?

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