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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, like other chronic negative emotions, increases the risks of complications during recovery from illness or surgery, according to the author in “Part Three: Chapter 11, Mind and Medicine”?
(a) Depression.
(b) Dyspareunia.
(c) Schizophrenia.
(d) Hypomania.

2. T. Berry Brazelton found through research that a child's readiness for learning is based on seven key factors. Which is the first of these?
(a) Cooperativeness.
(b) Relatedness.
(c) Curiosity.
(d) Confidence.

3. According to the author in Part Four: Chapter 13, “Trauma and Emotional Relearning ,” what can help lessen the length and intensity of emotional responses or emotional hijackings, reshaping the brain to stand down from the constant state of emergency?
(a) Objective thinking.
(b) Psychotherapy.
(c) Working memory.
(d) Fear conditioning.

4. Jerome Kagan is a developmental psychologist from what university?
(a) The University of Alabama.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) Yale University.
(d) The University of New Hampshire.

5. T. Berry Brazelton found through research that a child's readiness for learning is based on seven key factors. Which is the second?
(a) Cooperativeness.
(b) Confidence.
(c) Curiosity.
(d) Relatedness.

6. When was Dr. Charles Nemeroff born?
(a) 1964.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1949.

7. Dr. Charles Nemeroff is best known for his work in treating what?
(a) Ekbom syndrome.
(b) Paraphilia.
(c) Pyromania.
(d) Depression.

8. What psychologist at the University of Texas summarizes his research by reporting that women want to talk to make an emotional connection, but men want to make a connection by doing things together?
(a) Ted Huston.
(b) C. R. Snyder.
(c) Robert Ader.
(d) John Mayer.

9. According to Dr. Charles Nemeroff, the sufferers of PTSD experience a numbing of pain thanks to a higher secretion of what?
(a) Adrenaline.
(b) Endorphins.
(c) Carbon Dioxide.
(d) Oxygen.

10. What does “SEL” stand for?
(a) Social and Emotional Learning.
(b) Short-term Experimental License.
(c) Socially Endangered Limitations.
(d) Specific Empathy Library.

11. Who are the psychologists who first published the concept of emotional intelligence in 1990?
(a) Peter Salovey and John D. Mayer.
(b) Jerome Kagan and Robert Rosenthal.
(c) Robert Rosenthal and Judith Hall.
(d) Judith Hall and Lizabeth Roemer.

12. Jerome Kagan found four temperamental types that have different patterns of brain activity. What is the third described in Part Four: Chapter 14, “Temperament Is Not Destiny”?
(a) Melancholy.
(b) Timid.
(c) Bold.
(d) Upbeat.

13. What psychologist discovered that the immune system is not separate from the brain, but connected to it through the part of the brain that regulates emotion?
(a) Robert Ader.
(b) Robert Levenson.
(c) Walter Mischel.
(d) Ted Huston.

14. As businesses rely more and more on teamwork in a global environment, the more prized employees will be the ones who demonstrate what?
(a) Anger management.
(b) Verbal development.
(c) Emotional intelligence.
(d) Somatic markers.

15. Dr. John Gottman is a professor emeritus at what university?
(a) The University of Iowa.
(b) The University of Wisconsin.
(c) The University of Washington.
(d) The University of Kansas.

Short Answer Questions

1. Psychologist John Lochman designed a program to retrain aggressive boys in what?

2. Dr. Judith Lewis Herman discovered three vital stages for retraining the brain of people suffering from PTSD. What is the third stage discussed in Part Four: Chapter 13, “Trauma and Emotional Relearning”?

3. Following criticism from Senator Charles Grassley of the Senate Finance Committee, Nemeroff resigned as chair of the psychiatry department at what institution?

4. At what institution does Dr. Redford Williams work?

5. In the doctor patient relationship, the doctor is trained to treat disease and injury but not what, according to the author in Part Three: Chapter 11, “Mind and Medicine”?

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