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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Engineers at Bell Labs were studied to see how well teams of 5 to how many could work together?
(a) 75.
(b) 150.
(c) 230.
(d) 20.

2. Corporate consultant and psychoanalyst Harry Levinson advises managers on how to coach employees. What is the second piece of advice he gives?
(a) Offer a solution.
(b) Be present.
(c) Be sympathetic.
(d) Be specific.

3. Dr. Redford Williams found that being prone to what was a stronger predictor of dying young than other risk factors including smoking, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol?
(a) Rationality.
(b) Anger.
(c) Depression.
(d) Education.

4. What test did Walter Mischel devise in the 1960s?
(a) The Harvard peanut experiment.
(b) The Columbia orange experiment.
(c) The Stanford marshmallow experiment.
(d) The Rutgers chicken experiment.

5. What, like other chronic negative emotions, increases the risks of complications during recovery from illness or surgery, according to the author in “Part Three: Chapter 11, Mind and Medicine”?
(a) Depression.
(b) Dyspareunia.
(c) Hypomania.
(d) Schizophrenia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Worriers believe they are planning ahead to ward off danger, but in fact, the act of worrying prevents them from what, according to the author?

2. In the doctor patient relationship, the doctor is trained to treat disease and injury but not what, according to the author in Part Three: Chapter 11, “Mind and Medicine”?

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

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

5. In 1916, at Stanford University, what psychologist released a revised examination which became known as the "Stanford–Binet test"?

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