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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. John Mayer names three styles of handling one’s emotions. What is the third?
(a) The engulfed.
(b) The accepting.
(c) The self-aware.
(d) The justified.

3. John Mayer names three styles of handling one’s emotions. What is the first?
(a) The engulfed.
(b) The accepting.
(c) The justified.
(d) The self-aware.

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

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

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

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

8. For what publication did Daniel Goleman write for twelve years, specializing in psychology and brain sciences?
(a) The Denver Post.
(b) The Chicago Tribune.
(c) The New York Times.
(d) The San Francisco Chronicle.

9. The neocortex is the "seat of” what, according to the author in Part One: Chapter 1, “What Are Emotions For?”
(a) Language.
(b) Thought.
(c) Empathy.
(d) Anger.

10. In a study by psychologist Martin Seligman, salesmen who were optimists sold how much more insurance in their first two years on the job than did pessimists?
(a) 18%.
(b) 76%.
(c) 52%.
(d) 37%.

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

12. When was Alfred Binet born?
(a) 1813.
(b) 1857.
(c) 1888.
(d) 1905.

13. Psychologists Daniel Weinberger and Richard Davidson researched what group of people who appear to tune-out their emotions?
(a) Aggressors.
(b) Repressors.
(c) Distressors.
(d) Depressors.

14. According to the author in Part Two: Chapter 6, “The Master Aptitude,” the superior achievement of Asian-Americans comes more from what than from IQ?
(a) Effort and determination.
(b) Politics and religion.
(c) Culture and music.
(d) Genetics and environment.

15. Joseph LeDoux works at the Center for Neural Science at what institution?
(a) Pennsylvania State University.
(b) The University of Wisconsin.
(c) The University of Washington.
(d) New York University.

Short Answer Questions

1. Charisma combines four separate interpersonal intelligence components. What is the second?

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

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. Alexithymics may suffer from a disconnection between the limbic system and what?

5. Charisma combines four separate interpersonal intelligence components, according to what two psychologists discussed in Part Two: Chapter 8, “The Social Arts”?

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