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

2. Decision making involves balancing the emotional and the what?
(a) Factual.
(b) Scientific.
(c) Verbal.
(d) Rational.

3. What does “FACS” stand for?
(a) Facial Action Coding System.
(b) Future Awareness and Clarity Sydrome.
(c) Future Action Cessation System.
(d) Frantic Actions of the Coerced Self.

4. Researcher Paul Ekman names three kinds of display rules in Part Two: Chapter 8, “The Social Arts.” What is the second?
(a) Exaggerating.
(b) Inventing.
(c) Substituting.
(d) Minimizing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Joseph LeDoux works at the Center for Neural Science at what institution?

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

3. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi refers to a state of high concentration, self-forgetfulness, and mild ecstasy as being what?

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

5. What does “DSM” refer to?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What study of C. R. Snyder’s is described in Part Two: Chapter 6, “The Master Aptitude”? What did his results indicate?

4. 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?”

5. What two methods does Dolf Zillmann give for diffusing anger in Part Two: Chapter 5, “Passion's Slaves”?

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

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

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

9. How does the author compare IQ and EI in Part Two: Chapter 3, “When Smart Is Dumb”?

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

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