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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What component of the brain remembers facts and context?
(a) The amygdala.
(b) The neocortex.
(c) The hippocampus.
(d) The olfactory lobe.

4. What are released by the adrenal glands as a reaction to stress, raising blood pressure, heart rate and the breathing rate and increasing muscle strength in a state of alertness?
(a) Enzymes.
(b) Carbohydrates.
(c) Catecholamines.
(d) Proteins.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to being aware of one's mood and one's thoughts about that mood at the same time?

2. Emotions, like instincts, have helped humans survive by doing what, according to the author in Part One: Chapter 1, “What Are Emotions For?”

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

4. When was Daniel Goleman born?

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

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