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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Alexithymia refers to a state of deficiency in understanding, processing, or describing what?
(a) Thought.
(b) Confidence.
(c) Relatedness.
(d) Emotions.

2. According to the author, we cannot control when an emotion strikes or which emotion will strike, but we can control what?
(a) When to have no emotion at all.
(b) The switch to a different emotion.
(c) The length of the distressing emotion.
(d) The intensity of that emotion.

3. Fear arouses the body to fight or flight by doing what within the body?
(a) Causing respiration to decrease.
(b) Sending blood to the major muscles.
(c) Increasing awareness.
(d) Decreasing brain activity.

4. For what publication did Daniel Goleman write for twelve years, specializing in psychology and brain sciences?
(a) The New York Times.
(b) The Denver Post.
(c) The Chicago Tribune.
(d) The San Francisco Chronicle.

5. John Mayer names three styles of handling one’s emotions. Which of these experience and control their emotions to that they remain on an even keel?
(a) The engulfed.
(b) The self-aware.
(c) The accepting.
(d) The justified.

Short Answer Questions

1. Worriers believe they are planning ahead to ward off danger, but in fact, the act of worrying prevents them from what, according to the author?

2. The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test was originated in what country?

3. About how many years ago did mammals develop a neocortex?

4. Psychologists Peter Salovey and John Mayer define emotional intelligence into five categories. What is the second category?

5. Dolf Zillmann is a psychologist at what university?

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