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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. Dolf Zillmann gives two methods for diffusing anger. What is the second?
(a) Release the anger in a constructive manner.
(b) Remove yourself from the setting that triggers the anger.
(c) Find someone to council you about the anger.
(d) Challenge the angry thoughts before taking action.

2. John Mayer is a psychologist at what institution?
(a) Claremont Graduate University.
(b) New York University.
(c) The University of New Hampshire.
(d) Columbia University.

3. What type of specialist is Dr. Antonio Damasio?
(a) Physicist.
(b) Arborist.
(c) Neurologist.
(d) Biologist.

4. Researcher Ulf Dimberg found that expressions of emotion are contagious with the transfer of mood coming from the more what person to others?
(a) Scientifically inclined.
(b) Socially engaged.
(c) Forcefully expressive.
(d) Socially dominant.

5. Joseph LeDoux found that sensory signals from the eye or ear go to the thalamus and then to what?
(a) The neocortex.
(b) The left pre-frontal lobe.
(c) The olfactory lobe.
(d) The amygdala.

Short Answer Questions

1. The left pre-frontal lobe of the brain can turn off or dampen what emotion?

2. Emotions, like instincts, have helped humans survive by doing what, according to the author in Part One: Chapter 1, “What Are Emotions For?”

3. Decision making involves balancing the emotional and the what?

4. According to the author in Part Two: Chapter 6, “The Master Aptitude,” the superior achievement of Asian-Americans comes more from what than from IQ?

5. John Mayer names three styles of handling one’s emotions. What is the first?

Short Essay Questions

1. Psychologist John Mayer, of the University of New Hampshire, names three styles of handling one's emotions. How are these described in Part Two: Chapter 4, “Know Thyself”?

2. How is the amygdala capable of surpassing the neocortex in moments of emotional hijacking?

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

4. What discovery did Walter Mischel make through his experiments in the 1960s?

5. 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?”

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

7. What biological explanation is given as a possible cause for alexithymia in Part Two: Chapter 4, “Know Thyself”?

8. What five categories of emotional intelligence are described in Part Two: Chapter 3, “When Smart Is Dumb”? Who names these categories?

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

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

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