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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Culture and music.
(b) Politics and religion.
(c) Genetics and environment.
(d) Effort and determination.

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

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

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

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) Narcissistic personality disorder.
(b) Bipolar disorder
(c) Depression.
(d) Dysphoria.

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

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

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

9. Howard Gardner works at what institution?
(a) The University of Wisconsin.
(b) The Harvard School of Education.
(c) Claremont Graduate University.
(d) Emory University.

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

11. During an emotional hijacking, emotions interfere with what, also known as the ability to take in and process information?
(a) Working memory.
(b) Somatic markers.
(c) Intelligence Quotient.
(d) Verbal development.

12. What researcher argues that the roots of morality come from empathy?
(a) Richard Davidson.
(b) Martin Hoffman.
(c) Robert Hare.
(d) Jerome Kagan.

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

14. Emotions, like instincts, have helped humans survive by doing what, according to the author in Part One: Chapter 1, “What Are Emotions For?”
(a) Encouraging relationships.
(b) Portraying strength.
(c) Driving them to action.
(d) Creating a universal language for all humans.

15. What is the specialization of Howard Gardner?
(a) Prison psychology.
(b) Neuroscience.
(c) Marriage counseling.
(d) Developmental psychology.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does “FACS” stand for?

2. Joseph LeDoux works at the Center for Neural Science at what institution?

3. What name refers to the groups of nuclei in the limbic system which store emotional memory assigning meaning to feelings?

4. 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?

5. What does “DSM” refer to?

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