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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. What psychologist at the University of Texas summarizes his research by reporting that women want to talk to make an emotional connection, but men want to make a connection by doing things together?

2. Leslie Brody and who summarize research on the emotional development of boys and girls in Part Three: Chapter 9, “Intimate Enemies”?

3. Neuroscientists Thorsten Wiesel and David Hubel proved that the neurons unused in the brain will do what?

4. According to the author in “Part Three: Chapter 11, Mind and Medicine,” various studies prove that helping people manage their emotions is a form of what?

5. T. Berry Brazelton found through research that a child's readiness for learning is based on seven key factors. Which is the third?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

6. What is the author’s position in teaching “character”? What is his conclusion in this regard at the end of the book?

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

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

9. What can cause post-traumatic stress disorder in children? What makes a difference in a child’s ability to overcome PTSD?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Discuss the work of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and the concept of “flow.” How is flow defined? How do people in the state of flow perceive time and obstacles? How does one attain this state?

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