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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Walter Mischel’s test in the 1960s measured what?
(a) Marriages and arguments.
(b) Deferred gratification.
(c) Childhood obesity.
(d) Post-traumatic stress disorder.

2. What did a Stanford University Medical School study find to be the emotion that does the most damage to the heart?
(a) Fear.
(b) Anger.
(c) Love.
(d) Jealousy.

3. Charisma combines four separate interpersonal intelligence components. What is the fourth?
(a) Organizing groups.
(b) Social analysis.
(c) Personal connection.
(d) Negotiating solutions.

4. In a study by psychologist Martin Seligman, salesmen who were optimists sold how much more insurance in their first two years on the job than did pessimists?
(a) 18%.
(b) 37%.
(c) 52%.
(d) 76%.

5. Psychologists Daniel Weinberger and Richard Davidson researched what group of people who appear to tune-out their emotions?
(a) Depressors.
(b) Aggressors.
(c) Distressors.
(d) Repressors.

Short Answer Questions

1. Psychiatrist Daniel Stern identified the process of reinforcing empathy in children as what?

2. The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test was originated in what country?

3. What name refers to the groups of nuclei in the limbic system which store emotional memory assigning meaning to feelings?

4. The neocortex is the "seat of” what, according to the author in Part One: Chapter 1, “What Are Emotions For?”

5. What kind of specialist is Joseph LeDoux?

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