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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Psychologist C. R. Snyder studied students’ grades in relation to their level of what?
2. When was Daniel Goleman born?
3. When was Alfred Binet born?
4. John Mayer names three styles of handling one’s emotions. What is the first?
5. What psychologist states that psychopaths may lack compassion and empathy for others because they themselves do not feel fear and cannot anticipate consequences in Part Two: Chapter 7, “The Roots of Empathy”?
Short Essay Questions
1. What discovery did Walter Mischel make through his experiments in the 1960s?
2. What biological explanation is given as a possible cause for alexithymia in Part Two: Chapter 4, “Know Thyself”?
3. How is dyssemia defined in Part Two: Chapter 8, “The Social Arts”? How common is dyssemia?
4. What test of Robert Rosenthal’s is described in Part Two: Chapter 7, “The Roots of Empathy”? How is the test described?
5. How does researcher Paul Ekman describe his three “display rules” for emotions in Part Two: Chapter 8, “The Social Arts”?
6. What did William Pithers discover about empathy in psychopaths, according to the author in Part Two: Chapter 7, “The Roots of Empathy”?
7. What term does Dr. Antonio Damasio give for “gut feelings”? What is their importance?
8. How do emotionally neglected and emotionally abused children respond differently to empathy?
9. What did Dolf Zillmann discover about anger, according to the author in Part Two: Chapter 5, “Passion's Slaves”?
10. What study of C. R. Snyder’s is described in Part Two: Chapter 6, “The Master Aptitude”? What did his results indicate?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analyze and discuss marriage and divorce rates in the past 100 years. What causes are given in the text for the growth in divorce rates? Are there other conditions that apply to this change? How have views on the institution of marriage changed? How have these differences in views affected divorce rates?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the work of Dr. Peter Sifneos and the condition of alexithymia. When was this condition identified? What characteristics do alexithymics exhibit? How are they perceived by others?
Essay Topic 3
Describe the components of the human brain. What components develop first in fetal development? What components of the brain are related to emotions? How do these components interact with the “reasoning” parts of the brain?
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