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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Alexithymics may suffer from a disconnection between the limbic system and what?
(a) The olfactory lobe.
(b) The left pre-frontal lobe.
(c) The brainstem.
(d) The neocortex.

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

3. What psychologist developed a test for empathy called the Profile of Nonverbal Sensitivity?
(a) Robert Rosenthal.
(b) Ulf Dimberg.
(c) Paul Ekman.
(d) Thomas Borkovec.

4. Walter Mischel’s test in the 1960s measured what?
(a) Childhood obesity.
(b) Marriages and arguments.
(c) Post-traumatic stress disorder.
(d) Deferred gratification.

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

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

7. At what age can children separate their own feelings from the feelings of others, according to the author in Part Two: Chapter 7, “The Roots of Empathy”?
(a) 5 ½.
(b) 2 ½.
(c) 7.
(d) 4.

8. Emotionally neglected children have a tendency to do what, according to the author in Part Two: Chapter 7, “The Roots of Empathy”?
(a) Overly attach themselves to others.
(b) Build relationships too early.
(c) Attain higher standards than others.
(d) Disconnect from others.

9. Dolf Zillmann is a psychologist at what university?
(a) Yale University.
(b) Columbia University.
(c) Duke University.
(d) The University of Alabama.

10. In philosophy, what is the characteristic of any action, belief, or desire that makes their choice a necessity?
(a) Rationality.
(b) Confidence.
(c) Relatedness.
(d) Attunement.

11. Dolf Zillmann gives two methods for diffusing anger. What is the first?
(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.

12. The left and right pre-frontal lobes of the brain’s cortex balance the emotional responses of what?
(a) The hippocampus.
(b) The neocortex.
(c) The amygdala.
(d) The olfactory lobe.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Alfred Binet born?

2. Researcher Ulf Dimberg found that expressions of emotion are contagious with the transfer of mood coming from the more what person to others?

3. Emotions, like instincts, have helped humans survive by doing what, according to the author in Part One: Chapter 1, “What Are Emotions For?”

4. The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test was originated in what country?

5. Fear arouses the body to fight or flight by doing what within the body?

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