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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of specialist is Dr. Antonio Damasio?
(a) Physicist.
(b) Biologist.
(c) Arborist.
(d) Neurologist.

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

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

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

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

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

7. What kind of specialist is Joseph LeDoux?
(a) Psychiatrist.
(b) Neuroscientist.
(c) Sociologist.
(d) Psychologist.

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

9. What refers to being aware of one's mood and one's thoughts about that mood at the same time?
(a) Self-awareness.
(b) Working memory.
(c) Neural hijacking.
(d) Objective thinking.

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

11. Joseph LeDoux found that sensory signals from the eye or ear go to the thalamus and then to what?
(a) The neocortex.
(b) The olfactory lobe.
(c) The amygdala.
(d) The left pre-frontal lobe.

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

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

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

15. The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test was originated in what country?
(a) Germany.
(b) France.
(c) Russia.
(d) Norway.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is researcher Ulf Dimberg from?

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

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

4. Psychologists Peter Salovey and John Mayer define emotional intelligence into five categories. What is the first category?

5. John Mayer names three styles of handling one’s emotions. What is the third?

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