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

2. Jerome Kagan found four temperamental types that have different patterns of brain activity. What is the fourth described in Part Four: Chapter 14, “Temperament Is Not Destiny”?
(a) Timid.
(b) Upbeat.
(c) Bold.
(d) Melancholy.

3. T. Berry Brazelton found through research that a child's readiness for learning is based on seven key factors. Which is the third?
(a) Curiosity.
(b) Confidence.
(c) Intentionality.
(d) Relatedness.

4. According to researchers in “Part Three: Chapter 9, “Intimate Enemies,” girls learn what faster than boys, and therefore become more skilled at expressing and reading emotions?
(a) Exaggeration.
(b) Language.
(c) Temperance.
(d) Anger.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Jerome Kagan found four temperamental types that have different patterns of brain activity. What is the first described in Part Four: Chapter 14, “Temperament Is Not Destiny”?

2. Jerome Kagan found four temperamental types that have different patterns of brain activity. What is the second described in Part Four: Chapter 14, “Temperament Is Not Destiny”?

3. In the doctor patient relationship, the doctor is trained to treat disease and injury but not what, according to the author in Part Three: Chapter 11, “Mind and Medicine”?

4. According to the author in Part Four: Chapter 13, “Trauma and Emotional Relearning ,” what can help lessen the length and intensity of emotional responses or emotional hijackings, reshaping the brain to stand down from the constant state of emergency?

5. According to Dr. Charles Nemeroff, the sufferers of PTSD experience a numbing of pain thanks to a higher secretion of what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What discovery did Dr. David Spiegel make regarding emotions and the body?

2. 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”?

3. What does the author give as reasons for the higher divorce rates today than 100 years ago in Part Three: “Chapter 9, Intimate Enemies”?

4. What growing movement in education is described by the author in Part Five: Chapter 16, “Schooling the Emotions”?

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

6. How does family impact a child’s development of emotional intelligence?

7. What three toxic parenting styles are described in Part Four: Chapter 12, “The Family Crucible”? Who identified these styles?

8. What does the author state in regard to personal prejudice in the workplace in Part Three: Chapter 10, “Managing with Heart”?

9. What discovery did Robert Ader make regarding emotions? What impact did this study have?

10. What did Richard Davidson discover as a link to temperament? How is this link described in Part Four: Chapter 14, “Temperament Is Not Destiny”?

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