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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What researcher argues that the roots of morality come from empathy?
(a) Robert Hare.
(b) Jerome Kagan.
(c) Richard Davidson.
(d) Martin Hoffman.

3. What term refers to a learning disability in reading nonverbal messages?
(a) Dyssemia.
(b) Dyscalculia.
(c) Dyspraxia.
(d) Dyslexia.

4. What is the first part of the human fetal brain to develop?
(a) The neocortex.
(b) The hippocampus.
(c) The amygdala.
(d) The brainstem.

5. 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) Neural hijacking.
(c) Objective thinking.
(d) Fear conditioning.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who studied married couples and found that they had the most accurate empathy when their physical responses were in synch?

3. Decision making involves balancing the emotional and the what?

4. What percentage or more of an emotional message is communicated non-verbally?

5. Empathy is learned in infancy through what process?

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