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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term refers to the state when the amygdala declares a state of emergency and drives the rest of the brain to respond to that emergency immediately?
(a) Fear conditioning.
(b) Objective thinking.
(c) Neural hijacking.
(d) Anger management.

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

3. Psychologists Lizabeth Roemer and Thomas Borkovec work at what university?
(a) Pennsylvania State University.
(b) Yale University.
(c) New York University.
(d) The University of Iowa.

4. 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) Bipolar disorder
(c) Narcissistic personality disorder.
(d) Dysphoria.

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. Daniel Goleman currently co-directs the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations at what university?
(a) New York University.
(b) The University of Alabama.
(c) Rutgers University.
(d) The University of Washington.

12. Where did Daniel Goleman earn his Ph.D.?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) Emory University.
(c) The University of Kansas.
(d) The University of Washington.

13. 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) Find someone to council you about the anger.
(d) Release the anger in a constructive manner.

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

15. 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 justified.
(b) The self-aware.
(c) The accepting.
(d) The engulfed.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What release is a crucial component of the fight-or-flight response of the sympathetic nervous system?

3. According to the author in Part Two: Chapter 5, “Passion's Slaves,” balancing the extremes of emotion leads to a state of well-being, or what the early Christian church called what?

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. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi refers to a state of high concentration, self-forgetfulness, and mild ecstasy as being what?

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