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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. According to the author, we cannot control when an emotion strikes or which emotion will strike, but we can control what?

2. Dolf Zillmann gives two methods for diffusing anger. What is the second?

3. What is medically recognized as a mental and emotional condition in which a person experiences intense feelings of depression, discontent and indifference to the world around them?

4. Psychiatrist Daniel Stern identified the process of reinforcing empathy in children as what?

5. Alexithymics may suffer from a disconnection between the limbic system and what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do emotionally neglected and emotionally abused children respond differently to empathy?

2. What are the purposes of the left and right pre-frontal lobes in the brain?

3. The growth of the human fetal brain parallels the evolution of the brain in other species. What is the first part of the brain to develop and what purpose does this part of the brain serve?

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

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

6. Where in the brain is the limbic system located? What purpose does this section of the brain serve?

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

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

9. What did Daniel Stern term the process of reinforcing empathy in children? How is this defined in Part Two: Chapter 7, “The Roots of Empathy”?

10. How is alexithymia defined in Part Two: Chapter 4, “Know Thyself”? Who coined this term?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the work of Joseph LeDoux and Dr. Antonio Damasio. What is the specialization of each of these individuals? What discoveries did each make regarding the amygdala? How does Dr. Damasio describe the process of the amygdala in an emotional hijacking?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the work of Harry Levinson. What advice does Levinson give his clients as a corporate consultant? What are the effects of bad management? How does Levinson suggest managers approach employees?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss work of Robert Ader. What impact did Ader’s discovery about the immune system have on the scientific community? What did the resulting experiments show? How can one learn skills to manipulate emotion and health?

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