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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the specialization of Howard Gardner?
(a) Developmental psychology.
(b) Marriage counseling.
(c) Prison psychology.
(d) Neuroscience.

3. What German psychologist coined the term “IQ”?
(a) John Gottman.
(b) Daniel Weinberger.
(c) Leslie Brody.
(d) William Stern.

4. What name refers to the groups of nuclei in the limbic system which store emotional memory assigning meaning to feelings?
(a) The brainstem.
(b) The amygdala.
(c) The olfactory lobe.
(d) The neocortex.

5. In 1916, at Stanford University, what psychologist released a revised examination which became known as the "Stanford–Binet test"?
(a) Bruce McEven.
(b) Robert Levenson.
(c) Lewis Terman.
(d) Robert Hare.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What part of the brain interprets the world through the sense of smell?

3. Alexithymia refers to a state of deficiency in understanding, processing, or describing what?

4. Alexithymia is a term coined by what psychotherapist in 1972?

5. What is the first part of the human fetal brain to develop?

(see the answer key)

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