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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Joseph LeDoux found that sensory signals from the eye or ear go to the thalamus and then to what?
(a) The left pre-frontal lobe.
(b) The neocortex.
(c) The olfactory lobe.
(d) The amygdala.

2. According to studies by Richard Davidson, people who were cheerful in temperament showed more activity in what part of the brain?
(a) The olfactory lobe.
(b) The left pre-frontal lobe.
(c) The hippocampus.
(d) The limbic system.

3. Jerome Kagan found four temperamental types that have different patterns of brain activity. What is the third described in Part Four: Chapter 14, “Temperament Is Not Destiny”?
(a) Melancholy.
(b) Upbeat.
(c) Bold.
(d) Timid.

4. What does “DSM” refer to?
(a) Disease Spreading Material.
(b) Depression and Sleep Apnea Medicine.
(c) Damaging Social Manners.
(d) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

5. About how many years ago did mammals develop a neocortex?
(a) 400,000.
(b) 100 million.
(c) 20 million.
(d) 2,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. What psychologist developed a test for empathy called the Profile of Nonverbal Sensitivity?

2. Sensitivity to prejudice has been addressed with what in an attempt to prevent lawsuits and conflict on the job?

3. Aside from social changes, the glue that holds a couple together is what, according to the author in Part Three: Chapter 9, “Intimate Enemies”?

4. Corporate consultant and psychoanalyst Harry Levinson advises managers on how to coach employees. What is the first piece of advice he gives?

5. Researcher Paul Ekman names three kinds of display rules in Part Two: Chapter 8, “The Social Arts.” What is the third?

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