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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. At what age can children separate their own feelings from the feelings of others, according to the author in Part Two: Chapter 7, “The Roots of Empathy”?
(a) 7.
(b) 4.
(c) 2 ½.
(d) 5 ½.

5. Psychologist C. R. Snyder works at what university?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) Emory University.
(c) The University of Kansas.
(d) The University of Washington.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Dr. Antonio Damasio labels what are commonly known as “gut feelings” with what term?

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

4. Alexithymics may suffer from a disconnection between the limbic system and what?

5. What release is a crucial component of the fight-or-flight response of the sympathetic nervous system?

(see the answer key)

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