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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. Marriages that began in 1890 suffered a divorce rate of what percentage, according to the author in Part Three: Chapter 9, “Intimate Enemies”?
(a) 2%.
(b) 14%.
(c) 10%.
(d) 6%.

2. 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?
(a) Fear conditioning.
(b) Objective thinking.
(c) Working memory.
(d) Psychotherapy.

3. Following criticism from Senator Charles Grassley of the Senate Finance Committee, Nemeroff resigned as chair of the psychiatry department at what institution?
(a) Rutgers University.
(b) The University of Washington.
(c) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
(d) Emory University.

4. Dr. John Gottman and a colleague identified the three most toxic parenting styles. Which is the first discussed in Part Four: Chapter 12, “The Family Crucible”?
(a) Over acknowledgment of feelings.
(b) Being too laissez-faire.
(c) Ignoring feelings altogether.
(d) Showing no respect for the child’s feelings.

5. According to an example in “Part Three: Chapter 9, “Intimate Enemies,” when girls play a sports game and one gets injured, what happens?
(a) New rules are made to avoid repeat injuries.
(b) The player that caused the injuries is ejected from the game.
(c) The game is cancelled and everyone goes home.
(d) The game stops and attention goes to the one injured.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sensitivity to prejudice has been addressed with what in an attempt to prevent lawsuits and conflict on the job?

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

3. 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”?

4. Dr. Charles Nemeroff is best known for his work in treating what?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What advice does Harry Levinson give to managers on coaching employees in Part Three: Chapter 10, “Managing with Heart”?

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

7. What program of John Lochman’s is decribed in Part Five: Chapter 15, “The Cost of Emotional Illiteracy”? What were the results of the program?

8. What is the impact of post-traumatic stress disorder in children, according to the author in Part Four: Chapter 13, “Trauma and Emotional Relearning”?

9. Harvard pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton found through research that a child's readiness for learning is based on seven key factors. What are they?

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

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