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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. What surrounds the brain stem like a ring providing improved tools for survival such as learning and memory?
(a) The amygdala.
(b) The neocortex.
(c) The olfactory lobe.
(d) The limbic system.

2. What prison psychologist states that some psychopaths can learn empathy by playing the role of their victims and by hearing and reading the statements of their victims?
(a) Richard Davidson.
(b) Peter Salovey.
(c) Ted Huston.
(d) William Pithers.

3. Emotionally abused children develop keen skills in interpreting the moods of others as a means of what, according to the author in Part Two: Chapter 7, “The Roots of Empathy”?
(a) Competition.
(b) Reliance.
(c) Rage.
(d) Survival.

4. According to the author in Part Two: Chapter 5, “Passion's Slaves,” anger, if not cut off, will fuel itself into what?
(a) Anxiety.
(b) Depression.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Rage.

5. What term refers to a learning disability in reading nonverbal messages?
(a) Dyssemia.
(b) Dyslexia.
(c) Dyscalculia.
(d) Dyspraxia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dolf Zillmann gives two methods for diffusing anger. What is the second?

2. During an emotional hijacking, emotions interfere with what, also known as the ability to take in and process information?

3. Charisma combines four separate interpersonal intelligence components. What is the first?

4. What does “EI” stand for?

5. What part of the brain interprets the world through the sense of smell?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Psychologists Lizabeth Roemer and Thomas Borkovecresearched worry and recommend two steps to reverse the worry habit. How are these described in Part Two: Chapter 5, “Passion's Slaves”?

3. What did Daniel Stern term the process of reinforcing empathy in children? How is this defined in Part Two: Chapter 7, “The Roots of Empathy”?

4. What four interpersonal intelligence components make up charisma, according to the author in Part Two: Chapter 8, “The Social Arts”? Who defined these components?

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

6. What discovery did Joseph LeDoux make in the study of emotional hijacking?

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

8. What are the purposes of emotions? How have they helped human survival, according to the author in Part One: Chapter 1, “What Are Emotions For?”

9. Where in the brain is the limbic system located? What purpose does this section of the brain serve?

10. What did William Pithers discover about empathy in psychopaths, according to the author in Part Two: Chapter 7, “The Roots of Empathy”?

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