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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. According to the author in Part Five: Chapter 15, “The Cost of Emotional Illiteracy,” alcoholics tend to have a biological marker of under-producing what neurotransmitter that regulates anxiety?
(a) GABA.
(b) Dopamine.
(c) Glutamate.
(d) Norepinephrine.

4. Dr. John Gottman and a colleague identified the three most toxic parenting styles. Which is the second discussed in Part Four: Chapter 12, “The Family Crucible”?
(a) Over acknowledgment of feelings.
(b) Showing no respect for the child’s feelings.
(c) Ignoring feelings altogether.
(d) Being too laissez-faire.

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

6. Hilda Bruch pioneered the study of eating disorders that identified the two-part cause. What was the first part?
(a) Girls with eating disorders were enraged and under stimulated.
(b) Girls with eating disorders were compassionate and uncoordinated.
(c) Girls with eating disorders felt ashamed and were unable to feel compassion.
(d) Girls with eating disorders could not distinguish one feeling from another.

7. Dr. John Gottman and a colleague identified the three most toxic parenting styles. Which is the first discussed in Part Four: Chapter 12, “The Family Crucible”?
(a) Ignoring feelings altogether.
(b) Over acknowledgment of feelings.
(c) Being too laissez-faire.
(d) Showing no respect for the child’s feelings.

8. 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”?
(a) The financial needs of the patient.
(b) The religious needs of the patient.
(c) The needs of the family.
(d) The emotional needs of the patient.

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

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

11. Psychologist Bruce McEven showed in studies that what weaken the immune system, increasing vulnerability to diabetes, ulcers, and the spread of cancer?
(a) Happiness and love.
(b) Anger and fear.
(c) Stress and anxiety.
(d) Fear and loathing.

12. The predisposition for melancholy or cheerfulness appears in what stage of development, according to the author in Part Four: Chapter 14, “Temperament Is Not Destiny”?
(a) The ninth year of life.
(b) The third year of life.
(c) The first year of life.
(d) The seventh year of life.

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

14. Dr. John Gottman worked with whom to identify the three most toxic parenting styles?
(a) Carole Hooven.
(b) Dolf Zillmann.
(c) Lizabeth Roemer.
(d) Walter Mischel.

15. Psychologist Richard Davidson works at what university?
(a) The University of New Hampshire.
(b) The University of Wisconsin.
(c) Emory University.
(d) Duke University.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. As businesses rely more and more on teamwork in a global environment, the more prized employees will be the ones who demonstrate what?

3. According to the author in Part Five: Chapter 15, “The Cost of Emotional Illiteracy,” emotional illiterates tend toward what?

4. 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?

5. Where was author Daniel Goleman born?

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