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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Emotions, like instincts, have helped humans survive by doing what, according to the author in Part One: Chapter 1, “What Are Emotions For?”
(a) Encouraging relationships.
(b) Portraying strength.
(c) Creating a universal language for all humans.
(d) Driving them to action.

2. The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test was originated in what country?
(a) Norway.
(b) France.
(c) Germany.
(d) Russia.

3. According to the author, we cannot control when an emotion strikes or which emotion will strike, but we can control what?
(a) The length of the distressing emotion.
(b) The intensity of that emotion.
(c) When to have no emotion at all.
(d) The switch to a different emotion.

4. Dolf Zillmann found that the universal trigger for anger is what?
(a) A sense of enlightenment.
(b) A sense of endangerment.
(c) A sense of empathy.
(d) A sense of entitlement.

5. What test did Walter Mischel devise in the 1960s?
(a) The Stanford marshmallow experiment.
(b) The Harvard peanut experiment.
(c) The Columbia orange experiment.
(d) The Rutgers chicken experiment.

6. 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 neocortex.
(c) The brainstem.
(d) The olfactory lobe.

7. John Mayer names three styles of handling one’s emotions. Which of these experience and control their emotions to that they remain on an even keel?
(a) The engulfed.
(b) The justified.
(c) The accepting.
(d) The self-aware.

8. When was Daniel Goleman born?
(a) 1927.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1946.

9. What psychologist developed a test for empathy called the Profile of Nonverbal Sensitivity?
(a) Robert Rosenthal.
(b) Ulf Dimberg.
(c) Paul Ekman.
(d) Thomas Borkovec.

10. What does “IQ” stand for?
(a) Infinity Question.
(b) Insomnia Quotient.
(c) Indirect Question.
(d) Intelligence Quotient.

11. Dr. Antonio Damasio works at the College of Medicine at what university?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) The University of Iowa.
(c) Pennsylvania State University.
(d) Rutgers University.

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

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

14. In philosophy, what is the characteristic of any action, belief, or desire that makes their choice a necessity?
(a) Confidence.
(b) Attunement.
(c) Rationality.
(d) Relatedness.

15. Dr. Antonio Damasio studied patients who suffered damage to what?
(a) The limbic system.
(b) The brainstem.
(c) The neocortex.
(d) Their prefrontal-amygdala circuit.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age can children separate their own feelings from the feelings of others, according to the author 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. Psychologist C. R. Snyder studied students’ grades in relation to their level of what?

4. What German psychologist coined the term “IQ”?

5. Charisma combines four separate interpersonal intelligence components. What is the first?

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