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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Walter Mischel works as a psychologist at what university?
(a) New York University.
(b) Pennsylvania State University.
(c) Columbia University.
(d) The University of Wisconsin.

2. 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?
(a) Genetics and environment.
(b) Politics and religion.
(c) Culture and music.
(d) Effort and determination.

3. According to the author in Part Two: Chapter 5, “Passion's Slaves,” balancing the extremes of emotion leads to a state of well-being, or what the early Christian church called what?
(a) Temperance.
(b) Exaggeration.
(c) Empathy.
(d) Rationality.

4. Dolf Zillmann gives two methods for diffusing anger. What is the second?
(a) Remove yourself from the setting that triggers the anger.
(b) Find someone to council you about the anger.
(c) Challenge the angry thoughts before taking action.
(d) Release the anger in a constructive manner.

5. Emotionally neglected children have a tendency to do what, according to the author in Part Two: Chapter 7, “The Roots of Empathy”?
(a) Build relationships too early.
(b) Attain higher standards than others.
(c) Disconnect from others.
(d) Overly attach themselves to others.

6. Charisma combines four separate interpersonal intelligence components. What is the fourth?
(a) Negotiating solutions.
(b) Social analysis.
(c) Personal connection.
(d) Organizing groups.

7. Joseph LeDoux found that sensory signals from the eye or ear go to the thalamus and then to what?
(a) The neocortex.
(b) The amygdala.
(c) The olfactory lobe.
(d) The left pre-frontal lobe.

8. Researcher Paul Ekman names three kinds of display rules in Part Two: Chapter 8, “The Social Arts.” What is the third?
(a) Substituting.
(b) Inventing.
(c) Minimizing.
(d) Exaggerating.

9. When was Alfred Binet born?
(a) 1905.
(b) 1813.
(c) 1857.
(d) 1888.

10. What does “EI” stand for?
(a) Emotional Intelligence.
(b) Euphoric Intelligence.
(c) Evolved Intelligence.
(d) Enlightened Intelligence.

11. Alexithymia is a term coined by what psychotherapist in 1972?
(a) Bruce McEven.
(b) Peter Sifneos.
(c) Lewis Terman.
(d) Thomas Borkovec.

12. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi refers to a state of high concentration, self-forgetfulness, and mild ecstasy as being what?
(a) “In flow.”
(b) “In tune.”
(c) “On par.”
(d) “Hypersensitive.”

13. Researcher Ulf Dimberg found that expressions of emotion are contagious with the transfer of mood coming from the more what person to others?
(a) Socially engaged.
(b) Scientifically inclined.
(c) Forcefully expressive.
(d) Socially dominant.

14. What surrounds the brain stem like a ring providing improved tools for survival such as learning and memory?
(a) The limbic system.
(b) The amygdala.
(c) The neocortex.
(d) The olfactory lobe.

15. Researcher Paul Ekman names three kinds of display rules in Part Two: Chapter 8, “The Social Arts.” What is the first?
(a) Minimizing.
(b) Substituting.
(c) Inventing.
(d) Exaggerating.

Short Answer Questions

1. In philosophy, what is the characteristic of any action, belief, or desire that makes their choice a necessity?

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

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

4. Psychologist C. R. Snyder studied students’ grades in relation to their level of what?

5. 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?

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