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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The neocortex is the "seat of” what, according to the author in Part One: Chapter 1, “What Are Emotions For?”
(a) Thought.
(b) Empathy.
(c) Anger.
(d) Language.

3. When was Alfred Binet born?
(a) 1857.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1888.
(d) 1813.

4. Dolf Zillmann is a psychologist at what university?
(a) Columbia University.
(b) Yale University.
(c) Duke University.
(d) The University of Alabama.

5. Fear arouses the body to fight or flight by doing what within the body?
(a) Decreasing brain activity.
(b) Increasing awareness.
(c) Sending blood to the major muscles.
(d) Causing respiration to decrease.

Short Answer Questions

1. Researcher Paul Ekman names three kinds of display rules in Part Two: Chapter 8, “The Social Arts.” What is the first?

2. Empathy is learned in infancy through what process?

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

4. What psychologist discovered that the immune system is not separate from the brain, but connected to it through the part of the brain that regulates emotion?

5. Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi works at what university?

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