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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where is researcher Ulf Dimberg from?
(a) Germany.
(b) Sweden.
(c) Iceland.
(d) Poland.

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

4. Psychologist C. R. Snyder studied students’ grades in relation to their level of what?
(a) Hope of success.
(b) Time spent watching television.
(c) Community involvement.
(d) Family wealth.

5. 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) 37%.
(c) 76%.
(d) 52%.

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

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

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

9. Researcher Ulf Dimberg found that expressions of emotion are contagious with the transfer of mood coming from the more what person to others?
(a) Scientifically inclined.
(b) Socially engaged.
(c) Socially dominant.
(d) Forcefully expressive.

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

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

12. When was Daniel Goleman born?
(a) 1946.
(b) 1927.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1965.

13. Alexithymia refers to a state of deficiency in understanding, processing, or describing what?
(a) Thought.
(b) Confidence.
(c) Emotions.
(d) Relatedness.

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) Portraying strength.
(b) Creating a universal language for all humans.
(c) Driving them to action.
(d) Encouraging relationships.

15. According to the author, we cannot control when an emotion strikes or which emotion will strike, but we can control what?
(a) When to have no emotion at all.
(b) The switch to a different emotion.
(c) The intensity of that emotion.
(d) The length of the distressing emotion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does “EI” stand for?

2. What notable book did psychiatrist Daniel Stern write?

3. The neocortex is the "seat of” what, according to the author in Part One: Chapter 1, “What Are Emotions For?”

4. What kind of specialist is Joseph LeDoux?

5. What component of the brain remembers facts and context?

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