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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Emotions, like instincts, have helped humans survive by doing what, according to the author in Part One: Chapter 1, “What Are Emotions For?”
(a) Creating a universal language for all humans.
(b) Portraying strength.
(c) Encouraging relationships.
(d) Driving them to action.

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

3. Howard Gardner works at what institution?
(a) Emory University.
(b) The University of Wisconsin.
(c) The Harvard School of Education.
(d) Claremont Graduate University.

4. The author refers to EI as which of the following?
(a) A meta-ability.
(b) A clinical disease.
(c) An inherited gene.
(d) An adverse reaction.

5. When was Daniel Goleman born?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1927.
(c) 1946.
(d) 1965.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of specialist is Joseph LeDoux?

3. What German psychologist coined the term “IQ”?

4. What is the specialization of Howard Gardner?

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

(see the answer key)

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