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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Author Daniel Goleman has been nominated for what prestigious award two times?
(a) The Pulitzer Prize.
(b) The National Book Award.
(c) The Ambassador book Award.
(d) The Nebula Award.

2. Dr. Judith Lewis Herman is a professor of clinical psychiatry at the Medical School of what institution?
(a) Pennsylvania State University.
(b) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) Yale University.

3. Psychologist John Lochman designed a program to retrain aggressive boys in what?
(a) Anger management.
(b) Verbal development.
(c) Deferred gratification.
(d) Fear conditioning.

4. Following criticism from Senator Charles Grassley of the Senate Finance Committee, Nemeroff resigned as chair of the psychiatry department at what institution?
(a) The University of Washington.
(b) Emory University.
(c) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
(d) Rutgers University.

5. Children who are disciplined irregularly or based on the mood of the parents learn what that can follow them through life, according to the author in Part Four: Chapter 12, “The Family Crucible”?
(a) Aggression.
(b) Confidence.
(c) Distress.
(d) Empathy.

6. 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) Psychotherapy.
(b) Fear conditioning.
(c) Working memory.
(d) Objective thinking.

7. Abuse warps a child's perceptions about what, according to the author in Part Four: Chapter 12, “The Family Crucible”?
(a) Rationality.
(b) Empathy.
(c) Confidence.
(d) Aggression.

8. Though it was long believed that the thalamus sent signals to the neocortex that then went to the amygdala, research by what neuroscientist discovered a direct connection from the thalamus to the amygdala?
(a) Dolf Zillmann.
(b) Ulf Dimberg.
(c) Joseph LeDoux.
(d) Jerome Kagan.

9. Dr. David Spiegel is one of the most respected experts in the clinical uses of what?
(a) Psychotherapy.
(b) Fear conditioning.
(c) Self-awareness.
(d) Hypnosis.

10. According to the author in “Part Three: Chapter 9, “Intimate Enemies,” boys honor independence while girls treasure what?
(a) Survival.
(b) Confidence.
(c) Rationality.
(d) Connectedness.

11. 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) Relatedness.
(c) Confidence.
(d) Curiosity.

12. Dr. Judith Lewis Herman discovered three vital stages for retraining the brain of people suffering from PTSD. What is the first stage discussed in Part Four: Chapter 13, “Trauma and Emotional Relearning”?
(a) Retelling and reconstructing the trauma in a safe environment.
(b) Mourning the trauma.
(c) Acting out the trauma in a real world environment.
(d) Understanding the triggers and responses.

13. Psychologist Richard Davidson discovered a link between temperament and what?
(a) Pre-frontal lobe activity.
(b) The hippocampus.
(c) The neocortex.
(d) The olfactory lobe.

14. Dr. Redford Williams found that being prone to what was a stronger predictor of dying young than other risk factors including smoking, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol?
(a) Anger.
(b) Rationality.
(c) Education.
(d) Depression.

15. Leslie Brody and who summarize research on the emotional development of boys and girls in Part Three: Chapter 9, “Intimate Enemies”?
(a) Robert Levenson.
(b) Judith Hall.
(c) C. R. Snyder.
(d) Harry Levinson.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. 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”?

3. Lawsuits against what corporation for their poor treatment of black patrons cost the company in money and in reputation, according to the author in Part Three: Chapter 10, “Managing with Heart”?

4. Corporate consultant and psychoanalyst Harry Levinson advises managers on how to coach employees. What is the third piece of advice he gives?

5. What did a Stanford University Medical School study find to be the emotion that does the most damage to the heart?

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