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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Walter Mischel’s test in the 1960s measured what?
(a) Childhood obesity.
(b) Deferred gratification.
(c) Marriages and arguments.
(d) Post-traumatic stress disorder.

4. An example of the social skills of charisma is exemplified by a scenario with an elderly Japanese man calming who on a bus in Part Two: Chapter 8, “The Social Arts”?
(a) A belligerent drunk.
(b) A violent felon.
(c) A hysterical mother.
(d) A rude teenager.

5. Psychologists Lizabeth Roemer and Thomas Borkovec work at what university?
(a) New York University.
(b) Yale University.
(c) Pennsylvania State University.
(d) The University of Iowa.

6. About how many years ago did mammals develop a neocortex?
(a) 2,000.
(b) 100 million.
(c) 400,000.
(d) 20 million.

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

8. 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?
(a) Catecholamines.
(b) Carbohydrates.
(c) Proteins.
(d) Enzymes.

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

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

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

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

13. What kind of specialist is Joseph LeDoux?
(a) Psychologist.
(b) Neuroscientist.
(c) Sociologist.
(d) Psychiatrist.

14. Decision making involves balancing the emotional and the what?
(a) Verbal.
(b) Factual.
(c) Scientific.
(d) Rational.

15. 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?
(a) Ted Huston.
(b) William Pithers.
(c) Richard Davidson.
(d) Peter Salovey.

Short Answer Questions

1. Researcher Paul Ekman names three kinds of display rules in Part Two: Chapter 8, “The Social Arts.” What is the third?

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

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

4. Psychologist C. R. Snyder works at what university?

5. What psychologist developed a test for empathy called the Profile of Nonverbal Sensitivity?

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