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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Physical changes in the brains of PTSD sufferers include: increased production of stress hormones and a lowered ability to control what response?
(a) Neural hijacking.
(b) Objective thinking.
(c) Fear conditioning.
(d) Fight or flight.

2. Hilda Bruch pioneered the study of eating disorders that identified the two-part cause. What was the first part?
(a) Girls with eating disorders felt ashamed and were unable to feel compassion.
(b) Girls with eating disorders could not distinguish one feeling from another.
(c) Girls with eating disorders were compassionate and uncoordinated.
(d) Girls with eating disorders were enraged and under stimulated.

3. At what institution does psychologist Bruce McEven work?
(a) Yale University.
(b) Rutgers University.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) Duke University.

4. What refers to being aware of one's mood and one's thoughts about that mood at the same time?
(a) Neural hijacking.
(b) Objective thinking.
(c) Working memory.
(d) Self-awareness.

5. Alexithymics may suffer from a disconnection between the limbic system and what?
(a) The neocortex.
(b) The olfactory lobe.
(c) The brainstem.
(d) The left pre-frontal lobe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Researcher Ulf Dimberg found that expressions of emotion are contagious with the transfer of mood coming from the more what person to others?

2. Venting anger generally does what, according to the author in Part Two: Chapter 5, “Passion's Slaves”?

3. Aside from social changes, the glue that holds a couple together is what, according to the author in Part Three: Chapter 9, “Intimate Enemies”?

4. What prison psychologist states that some psychopaths can learn empathy by playing the role of their victims and by hearing and reading the statements of their victims?

5. According to the author, we cannot control when an emotion strikes or which emotion will strike, but we can control what?

(see the answer key)

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