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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Walter Mischel’s test in the 1960s measured what?
(a) Post-traumatic stress disorder.
(b) Deferred gratification.
(c) Marriages and arguments.
(d) Childhood obesity.

2. Psychologists Lizabeth Roemer and Thomas Borkovec work at what university?
(a) New York University.
(b) The University of Iowa.
(c) Pennsylvania State University.
(d) Yale University.

3. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi refers to a state of high concentration, self-forgetfulness, and mild ecstasy as being what?
(a) “On par.”
(b) “Hypersensitive.”
(c) “In flow.”
(d) “In tune.”

4. What name refers to the groups of nuclei in the limbic system which store emotional memory assigning meaning to feelings?
(a) The olfactory lobe.
(b) The neocortex.
(c) The amygdala.
(d) The brainstem.

5. Psychologist C. R. Snyder works at what university?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) The University of Washington.
(c) The University of Kansas.
(d) Emory University.

Short Answer Questions

1. What test did Walter Mischel devise in the 1960s?

2. What release is a crucial component of the fight-or-flight response of the sympathetic nervous system?

3. What is the first part of the human fetal brain to develop?

4. Researcher Paul Ekman names three kinds of display rules in Part Two: Chapter 8, “The Social Arts.” What is the third?

5. What notable book did psychiatrist Daniel Stern write?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the purpose of the neocortex? When was the neocortex developed in mammals?

2. The growth of the human fetal brain parallels the evolution of the brain in other species. What is the first part of the brain to develop and what purpose does this part of the brain serve?

3. What does Howard Gardner suggest regarding EI in Part Two: Chapter 3, “When Smart Is Dumb”?

4. What are the impacts of extreme emotions, according to the author in Part Two: Chapter 5, “Passion's Slaves”? What is the opposite called?

5. What term does Dr. Antonio Damasio give for “gut feelings”? What is their importance?

6. What did Ulf Dimberg discover about expressions of emotion, according to the author in Part Two: Chapter 8, “The Social Arts”?

7. What are the purposes of the left and right pre-frontal lobes in the brain?

8. What test of Robert Rosenthal’s is described in Part Two: Chapter 7, “The Roots of Empathy”? How is the test described?

9. What are positive uses of emotion, according to the author in Part Two: Chapter 6, “The Master Aptitude”?

10. How does researcher Paul Ekman describe his three “display rules” for emotions in Part Two: Chapter 8, “The Social Arts”?

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