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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Psychologists Peter Salovey and John Mayer define emotional intelligence into five categories. What is the second category?
(a) Handling relationships.
(b) Knowing one’s emotions.
(c) Motivating one's self.
(d) Managing emotions.

2. Venting anger generally does what, according to the author in Part Two: Chapter 5, “Passion's Slaves”?
(a) Justifies it.
(b) Fuels it.
(c) Acknowledges it.
(d) Reduces it.

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

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

5. What term refers to a learning disability in reading nonverbal messages?
(a) Dyslexia.
(b) Dyssemia.
(c) Dyspraxia.
(d) Dyscalculia.

6. What type of specialist is Dr. Antonio Damasio?
(a) Arborist.
(b) Neurologist.
(c) Biologist.
(d) Physicist.

7. What component of the brain remembers facts and context?
(a) The neocortex.
(b) The amygdala.
(c) The hippocampus.
(d) The olfactory lobe.

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

9. 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 rude teenager.
(b) A belligerent drunk.
(c) A hysterical mother.
(d) A violent felon.

10. Fear arouses the body to fight or flight by doing what within the body?
(a) Sending blood to the major muscles.
(b) Increasing awareness.
(c) Decreasing brain activity.
(d) Causing respiration to decrease.

11. The author refers to EI as which of the following?
(a) A clinical disease.
(b) An inherited gene.
(c) A meta-ability.
(d) An adverse reaction.

12. 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 self-aware.
(c) The justified.
(d) The accepting.

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

14. John Mayer is a psychologist at what institution?
(a) New York University.
(b) The University of New Hampshire.
(c) Claremont Graduate University.
(d) Columbia University.

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. What does “IQ” stand for?

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

3. Dolf Zillmann gives two methods for diffusing anger. What is the second?

4. 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?

5. What test did Walter Mischel devise in the 1960s?

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