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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 is medically recognized as a mental and emotional condition in which a person experiences intense feelings of depression, discontent and indifference to the world around them?
(a) Depression.
(b) Dysphoria.
(c) Bipolar disorder
(d) Narcissistic personality disorder.

2. What refers to being aware of one's mood and one's thoughts about that mood at the same time?
(a) Working memory.
(b) Objective thinking.
(c) Self-awareness.
(d) Neural hijacking.

3. Psychiatrist Daniel Stern identified the process of reinforcing empathy in children as what?
(a) Enchantment.
(b) Attunement.
(c) Metamorphosis.
(d) Reliance.

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

5. What researcher argues that the roots of morality come from empathy?
(a) Martin Hoffman.
(b) Robert Hare.
(c) Jerome Kagan.
(d) Richard Davidson.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the author in Part Two: Chapter 5, “Passion's Slaves,” balancing the extremes of emotion leads to a state of well-being, or what the early Christian church called what?

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

4. Who studied married couples and found that they had the most accurate empathy when their physical responses were in synch?

5. Where is researcher Ulf Dimberg from?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How is dyssemia defined in Part Two: Chapter 8, “The Social Arts”? How common is dyssemia?

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

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

7. How do emotionally neglected and emotionally abused children respond differently to empathy?

8. 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”?

9. 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”?

10. 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”?

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