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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1916, at Stanford University, what psychologist released a revised examination which became known as the "Stanford–Binet test"?
(a) Robert Hare.
(b) Bruce McEven.
(c) Lewis Terman.
(d) Robert Levenson.

2. What release is a crucial component of the fight-or-flight response of the sympathetic nervous system?
(a) Carbohydrate.
(b) Oxygen.
(c) Carbon Dioxide.
(d) Adrenaline.

3. What percentage or more of an emotional message is communicated non-verbally?
(a) 90%.
(b) 35%.
(c) 75%.
(d) 20%.

4. What German psychologist coined the term “IQ”?
(a) Daniel Weinberger.
(b) William Stern.
(c) John Gottman.
(d) Leslie Brody.

5. What is medically recognized as a mental and emotional condition in which a person experiences intense feelings of depression, discontent and indifference to the world around them?
(a) Depression.
(b) Dysphoria.
(c) Narcissistic personality disorder.
(d) Bipolar disorder

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

7. What does “DSM” refer to?
(a) Disease Spreading Material.
(b) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
(c) Damaging Social Manners.
(d) Depression and Sleep Apnea Medicine.

8. 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 dominant.
(b) Socially engaged.
(c) Forcefully expressive.
(d) Scientifically inclined.

9. Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi works at what university?
(a) Rutgers University.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) Stanford University.
(d) Claremont Graduate University.

10. What is the first part of the human fetal brain to develop?
(a) The hippocampus.
(b) The amygdala.
(c) The brainstem.
(d) The neocortex.

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

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

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

14. The left and right pre-frontal lobes of the brain’s cortex balance the emotional responses of what?
(a) The neocortex.
(b) The amygdala.
(c) The hippocampus.
(d) The olfactory lobe.

15. What does “FACS” stand for?
(a) Future Awareness and Clarity Sydrome.
(b) Facial Action Coding System.
(c) Frantic Actions of the Coerced Self.
(d) Future Action Cessation System.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in Part Two: Chapter 5, “Passion's Slaves,” anger, if not cut off, will fuel itself into what?

2. About how many years ago did mammals develop a neocortex?

3. 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?

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

5. Psychologists Lizabeth Roemer and Thomas Borkovec work at what university?

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