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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What term refers to the state when the amygdala declares a state of emergency and drives the rest of the brain to respond to that emergency immediately?
(a) Neural hijacking.
(b) Objective thinking.
(c) Fear conditioning.
(d) Anger management.

3. Alexithymia is a term coined by what psychotherapist in 1972?
(a) Thomas Borkovec.
(b) Bruce McEven.
(c) Peter Sifneos.
(d) Lewis Terman.

4. What does “EI” stand for?
(a) Euphoric Intelligence.
(b) Evolved Intelligence.
(c) Enlightened Intelligence.
(d) Emotional Intelligence.

5. John Mayer names three styles of handling one’s emotions. What is the first?
(a) The justified.
(b) The engulfed.
(c) The self-aware.
(d) The accepting.

Short Answer 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?”

2. What type of specialist is Dr. Antonio Damasio?

3. Daniel Goleman currently co-directs the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations at what university?

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

5. What name refers to the groups of nuclei in the limbic system which store emotional memory assigning meaning to feelings?

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