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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author notes that it is generally easier for one to distance oneself from one’s emotions than one’s what?
(a) Chemistry.
(b) Thoughts.
(c) Feelings.
(d) Love.

2. The author argues that for the average human, what type of perception is an impossible task to achieve?
(a) Precise.
(b) Clear.
(c) Connected.
(d) Unadulterated.

3. What doctrine emphasizes that nothing has any essence?
(a) The surrender doctrine.
(b) The aesthetics doctrine.
(c) The familial doctrine.
(d) The emptiness doctrine.

4. What is Robert Zajonc's field of expertise?
(a) Physics.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Psychology.
(d) Biology.

5. What does the acronym RAIN stand for?
(a) Recognizing, accepting, illuminating, and non-attaching from the world.
(b) Recognizing, accepting, investigating, and non-attaching from the feeling.
(c) Recognizing, alleviating, investigating, and non-attaching from the consciousness.
(d) Relating, accepting, investigating, and non-attaching from the feeling.

6. What object does the author use as an example of illogical attachment to inanimate objects?
(a) A thermometer.
(b) A tape measure.
(c) A ruler.
(d) A xylophone.

7. The author states that perception is what type of process?
(a) Personal.
(b) Exhaustive.
(c) Mental.
(d) Active.

8. Which of the following examples is used by the author to demonstrate that human brains are not foolproof?
(a) Binoculars.
(b) Optical illusions.
(c) Photographs.
(d) Super-8 videos.

9. Which of the three schools of meditation supports the idea that a critical distance of separation between the self and individual thoughts will give the conscious self more control?
(a) Vipassana.
(b) Western.
(c) Zen.
(d) Tibetan.

10. An intertemporal utility function represents how willing a person is to delay what?
(a) Death.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Gratification.
(d) Injury.

11. The author states that rather than seeing the world as hopeless and empty, enlightened and otherwise accomplished meditators see each individual object, person, and experience as empty in the sense that it does not have a preset what?
(a) Connotation.
(b) Truth.
(c) Value.
(d) Worth.

12. Robert Zajonc equates having feelings about something with performing what other action?
(a) Assessing one's self.
(b) Contemplating those feelings.
(c) Deciding upon next steps.
(d) Making judgments about things.

13. Chapter 10 is entitled "Encounters With the" what?
(a) Empty.
(b) Faithful.
(c) Universe.
(d) Formless.

14. With what system is the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex associated?
(a) The prefrontal cortex system.
(b) The adrenal system.
(c) The dopamine system.
(d) The endocrine system.

15. The author states that specific types of what can turn off the autopilot mode for feelings?
(a) Exercises.
(b) Behavioral therapies.
(c) Music.
(d) Meditation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What problem does the author say afflicts him when he is trying to work?

2. What piece of text asserts that "Form is emptiness" (143)?

3. When it feels like the rational self makes a decision, what is really happening, according to Kurzban?

4. The author states that what elements are just tools to help the brain sort the importance of various thoughts?

5. The author notes that generally, the thoughts that arise during meditation follow how many common themes?

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