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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Neuroscientists Thorsten Wiesel and David Hubel proved that the neurons unused in the brain will do what?
(a) Absorb their neighbors.
(b) Establish new connections.
(c) Lose their connections.
(d) Shrink in size.

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

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

4. 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 Levenson.
(b) Robert Ader.
(c) Walter Mischel.
(d) Ted Huston.

5. Dr. David Spiegel is the Associate Chair of Psychiatry at what institution?
(a) The University of Kansas.
(b) Rutgers University.
(c) The University of Wisconsin.
(d) Stanford University.

6. T. Berry Brazelton is a pediatrician from what institution?
(a) The University of Alabama.
(b) The University of Kansas.
(c) Yale University.
(d) Harvard University.

7. What psychologist tracked 200 couples identifying significant signs that predict which marriages will fail based on how they handle disagreements?
(a) Thomas Hatch.
(b) Peter Sifneos.
(c) John Gottman.
(d) Howard Gardner.

8. Physical changes in the brains of PTSD sufferers include: increased production of stress hormones and a lowered ability to control what response?
(a) Neural hijacking.
(b) Fear conditioning.
(c) Objective thinking.
(d) Fight or flight.

9. In what year did Hilda Bruch pioneer a study of eating disorders that identified a two-part cause?
(a) 1978.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1981.

10. The way men and women communicate comes from training in childhood and what, according to the author in Part Three: Chapter 9, “Intimate Enemies”?
(a) Mathematical development.
(b) Verbal development.
(c) Intuition.
(d) School education.

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

12. Dr. David Spiegel studied women in the advanced stage of what disease?
(a) AIDS.
(b) Breast cancer.
(c) Glaucoma.
(d) Alzheimer's.

13. What is the process of associating non-threatening things with something feared?
(a) Fear conditioning.
(b) Temperance.
(c) Psychotherapy.
(d) Working memory.

14. Which of the seven key factors of a child’s readiness for learning defined by T. Berry Brazelton means engaging with others?
(a) Confidence.
(b) Cooperativeness.
(c) Relatedness.
(d) Curiosity.

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

Short Answer 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”?

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

3. According to an example in “Part Three: Chapter 9, “Intimate Enemies,” when boys play a sports game and one gets injured, the injured is expected to do what?

4. What does “SEL” stand for?

5. According to Dr. Charles Nemeroff, the sufferers of PTSD experience a numbing of pain thanks to a higher secretion of what?

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