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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 Dr. Charles Nemeroff, the sufferers of PTSD experience a numbing of pain thanks to a higher secretion of what?
2. Following criticism from Senator Charles Grassley of the Senate Finance Committee, Nemeroff resigned as chair of the psychiatry department at what institution?
3. 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?
4. Who found that husbands find disagreements more stressful and therefore have a lower threshold for flooding leading them to stonewall as a protective defense?
5. The way men and women communicate comes from training in childhood and what, according to the author in Part Three: Chapter 9, “Intimate Enemies”?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. Harvard pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton found through research that a child's readiness for learning is based on seven key factors. What are they?
3. What example does the author give in Part Three: “Chapter 9, Intimate Enemies” for the differences between boys and girls in their interpersonal relationships?
4. How does the author describe the “healthy” and “unhealthy” ways of arguing in Part Three: “Chapter 9, Intimate Enemies”?
5. What impact does abuse have on a child’s perceptions of empathy?
6. Why four temperamental types are described in Part Four: Chapter 14, “Temperament Is Not Destiny”? Who identified these types?
7. What is the impact of emotional illiteracy, according to the author in Part Five: Chapter 15, “The Cost of Emotional Illiteracy”?
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. What did Richard Davidson discover as a link to temperament? How is this link described in Part Four: Chapter 14, “Temperament Is Not Destiny”?
10. What health impacts from anger are described in Part Three: Chapter 11, “Mind and Medicine”? Who conducted studies on anger?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the research of Doff Zillmann and his studies at the University of Alabama. What did Zillmann discover to be the trigger for anger? Is this theory contested? What methods does Zillmann give for diffusing anger?
Essay Topic 2
Define and analyze repressors. What biological elements are involved in the behavior of these individuals? What psychological elements are involved? How do repressors learn to express their emotions?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the concept of optimism and its impact on emotional intelligence. How does optimism affect human health? Can optimism ever be a “bad” thing? Can a person learn skills to become optimistic?
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