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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Dr. David Spiegel is the Associate Chair of Psychiatry at what institution?
(a) The University of Wisconsin.
(b) Stanford University.
(c) The University of Kansas.
(d) Rutgers University.

2. Dr. Redford Williams found that being prone to what was a stronger predictor of dying young than other risk factors including smoking, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol?
(a) Education.
(b) Rationality.
(c) Anger.
(d) Depression.

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

4. According to the author in “Part Three: Chapter 11, Mind and Medicine,” various studies prove that helping people manage their emotions is a form of what?
(a) Fear conditioning.
(b) Disease prevention.
(c) Anger management.
(d) Deferred gratification.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Alexithymia is a term coined by what psychotherapist in 1972?

2. What are released by the adrenal glands as a reaction to stress, raising blood pressure, heart rate and the breathing rate and increasing muscle strength in a state of alertness?

3. What refers to being aware of one's mood and one's thoughts about that mood at the same time?

4. Dr. Antonio Damasio works at the College of Medicine at what university?

5. What is the process of associating non-threatening things with something feared?

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