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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What name refers to the groups of nuclei in the limbic system which store emotional memory assigning meaning to feelings?
(a) The amygdala.
(b) The olfactory lobe.
(c) The brainstem.
(d) The neocortex.

2. During an emotional hijacking, emotions interfere with what, also known as the ability to take in and process information?
(a) Intelligence Quotient.
(b) Verbal development.
(c) Somatic markers.
(d) Working memory.

3. The left pre-frontal lobe of the brain can turn off or dampen what emotion?
(a) Empathy.
(b) Anger.
(c) Distress.
(d) Love.

4. Dr. Judith Lewis Herman is a professor of clinical psychiatry at the Medical School of what institution?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) Pennsylvania State University.
(c) Yale University.
(d) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

5. What did a Stanford University Medical School study find to be the emotion that does the most damage to the heart?
(a) Love.
(b) Jealousy.
(c) Fear.
(d) Anger.

Short Answer Questions

1. What psychologist states that psychopaths may lack compassion and empathy for others because they themselves do not feel fear and cannot anticipate consequences in Part Two: Chapter 7, “The Roots of Empathy”?

2. 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?

3. What is the first part of the human fetal brain to develop?

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

5. Where did Daniel Goleman earn his Ph.D.?

(see the answer key)

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