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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What part of the brain interprets the world through the sense of smell?
(a) The olfactory lobe.
(b) The neocortex.
(c) The amygdala.
(d) The brainstem.

2. The left pre-frontal lobe of the brain can turn off or dampen what emotion?
(a) Empathy.
(b) Anger.
(c) Distress.
(d) Love.

3. The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test was originated in what country?
(a) Germany.
(b) France.
(c) Norway.
(d) Russia.

4. Psychologists Peter Salovey and John Mayer define emotional intelligence into five categories. What is the third category?
(a) Handling relationships.
(b) Knowing one’s emotions.
(c) Managing emotions.
(d) Motivating one's self.

5. When was Alfred Binet born?
(a) 1888.
(b) 1857.
(c) 1813.
(d) 1905.

Short Answer Questions

1. Fear arouses the body to fight or flight by doing what within the body?

2. What kind of specialist is Joseph LeDoux?

3. Joseph LeDoux works at the Center for Neural Science at what institution?

4. The left and right pre-frontal lobes of the brain’s cortex balance the emotional responses of what?

5. In 1916, at Stanford University, what psychologist released a revised examination which became known as the "Stanford–Binet test"?

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