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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Psychiatrist Daniel Stern identified the process of reinforcing empathy in children as what?
(a) Enchantment.
(b) Metamorphosis.
(c) Reliance.
(d) Attunement.

2. Charisma combines four separate interpersonal intelligence components, according to what two psychologists discussed in Part Two: Chapter 8, “The Social Arts”?
(a) Thomas Hatch and Howard Gardner.
(b) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and T. Berry Brazelton.
(c) Ulf Dimberg and Peter Salovey.
(d) Ted Huston and Martin Seligman.

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

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

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

6. According to the author in Part Two: Chapter 5, “Passion's Slaves,” anger, if not cut off, will fuel itself into what?
(a) Rage.
(b) Depression.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Anxiety.

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

8. Worriers believe they are planning ahead to ward off danger, but in fact, the act of worrying prevents them from what, according to the author?
(a) Objective thinking.
(b) Neural hijacking.
(c) Self-awareness.
(d) Fight or flight.

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

10. What notable book did psychiatrist Daniel Stern write?
(a) The Interpersonal World of the Infant.
(b) Somatoform Disorders.
(c) Dementia, Delirium, and Psychiatric Symptoms Secondary to General Medical Conditions.
(d) The Agitated/Violent Patient, Self-harm and suicide.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Empathy is learned in infancy through what process?

2. Psychologists Peter Salovey and John Mayer define emotional intelligence into five categories. What is the third category?

3. 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”?

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

5. 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?

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