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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of specialist is Joseph LeDoux?
(a) Psychologist.
(b) Psychiatrist.
(c) Neuroscientist.
(d) Sociologist.

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) Anger management.
(b) Objective thinking.
(c) Neural hijacking.
(d) Fear conditioning.

3. What surrounds the brain stem like a ring providing improved tools for survival such as learning and memory?
(a) The neocortex.
(b) The amygdala.
(c) The limbic system.
(d) The olfactory lobe.

4. Dr. Antonio Damasio studied patients who suffered damage to what?
(a) The neocortex.
(b) The limbic system.
(c) The brainstem.
(d) Their prefrontal-amygdala circuit.

5. John Mayer names three styles of handling one’s emotions. Which of these experience and control their emotions to that they remain on an even keel?
(a) The accepting.
(b) The justified.
(c) The engulfed.
(d) The self-aware.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author refers to EI as which of the following?

2. What is the specialization of Howard Gardner?

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

4. Joseph LeDoux found that sensory signals from the eye or ear go to the thalamus and then to what?

5. Psychologists Peter Salovey and John Mayer define emotional intelligence into five categories. What is the second category?

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