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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, like other chronic negative emotions, increases the risks of complications during recovery from illness or surgery, according to the author in “Part Three: Chapter 11, Mind and Medicine”?
(a) Depression.
(b) Hypomania.
(c) Schizophrenia.
(d) Dyspareunia.

2. Hilda Bruch pioneered the study of eating disorders that identified the two-part cause. What was the first part?
(a) Girls with eating disorders could not distinguish one feeling from another.
(b) Girls with eating disorders were compassionate and uncoordinated.
(c) Girls with eating disorders felt ashamed and were unable to feel compassion.
(d) Girls with eating disorders were enraged and under stimulated.

3. At what institution does Dr. Redford Williams work?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) Duke University.
(c) Rutgers University.
(d) Yale University.

4. According to the author in “Part Three: Chapter 9, “Intimate Enemies,” boys honor independence while girls treasure what?
(a) Rationality.
(b) Confidence.
(c) Connectedness.
(d) Survival.

5. Dr. Charles Nemeroff is best known for his work in treating what?
(a) Depression.
(b) Ekbom syndrome.
(c) Pyromania.
(d) Paraphilia.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in Part Five: Chapter 15, “The Cost of Emotional Illiteracy,” alcoholics tend to have a biological marker of under-producing what neurotransmitter that regulates anxiety?

2. According to an example in “Part Three: Chapter 9, “Intimate Enemies,” when girls play a sports game and one gets injured, what happens?

3. What did a Stanford University Medical School study find to be the emotion that does the most damage to the heart?

4. Dr. Judith Lewis Herman discovered three vital stages for retraining the brain of people suffering from PTSD. What is the second stage discussed in Part Four: Chapter 13, “Trauma and Emotional Relearning”?

5. Lawsuits against what corporation for their poor treatment of black patrons cost the company in money and in reputation, according to the author in Part Three: Chapter 10, “Managing with Heart”?

Short Essay Questions

1. What impact does abuse have on a child’s perceptions of empathy?

2. What impacts do stress and anxiety have on the body, according to Bruce McEven?

3. What study did Hilda Bruch develop in the 1960s? What discoveries did she make?

4. Why do parents have the greatest influence in shaping a child’s brain, according to the author in Part Four: Chapter 14, “Temperament Is Not Destiny”?

5. What is the impact of emotional illiteracy, according to the author in Part Five: Chapter 15, “The Cost of Emotional Illiteracy”?

6. What biological explanation does Dr. Charles Nemeroff give for PTSD in Part Four: Chapter 13, “Trauma and Emotional Relearning”?

7. What can cause post-traumatic stress disorder in children? What makes a difference in a child’s ability to overcome PTSD?

8. How does the author describe the “healthy” and “unhealthy” ways of arguing in Part Three: “Chapter 9, Intimate Enemies”?

9. What did Leslie Brody and Judith Hall discover about the developmental differences between boys and girls?

10. What does the author state regarding “age-appropriate learning” in Part Five: Chapter 16, “Schooling the Emotions”?

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