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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Psychologists Peter Salovey and John Mayer define emotional intelligence into five categories. What is the third category?
(a) Motivating one's self.
(b) Knowing one’s emotions.
(c) Handling relationships.
(d) Managing emotions.

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

3. Researcher Paul Ekman names three kinds of display rules in Part Two: Chapter 8, “The Social Arts.” What is the first?
(a) Minimizing.
(b) Inventing.
(c) Substituting.
(d) Exaggerating.

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

5. John Mayer is a psychologist at what institution?
(a) New York University.
(b) The University of New Hampshire.
(c) Columbia University.
(d) Claremont Graduate University.

6. Dr. Antonio Damasio works at the College of Medicine at what university?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) Pennsylvania State University.
(c) The University of Iowa.
(d) Rutgers University.

7. According to the author, we cannot control when an emotion strikes or which emotion will strike, but we can control what?
(a) When to have no emotion at all.
(b) The switch to a different emotion.
(c) The length of the distressing emotion.
(d) The intensity of that emotion.

8. When was Daniel Goleman born?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1927.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1946.

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

10. Researcher Paul Ekman names three kinds of display rules in Part Two: Chapter 8, “The Social Arts.” What is the second?
(a) Exaggerating.
(b) Inventing.
(c) Substituting.
(d) Minimizing.

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

12. The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test was originated in what country?
(a) France.
(b) Russia.
(c) Germany.
(d) Norway.

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

14. During an emotional hijacking, emotions interfere with what, also known as the ability to take in and process information?
(a) Verbal development.
(b) Intelligence Quotient.
(c) Somatic markers.
(d) Working memory.

15. What release is a crucial component of the fight-or-flight response of the sympathetic nervous system?
(a) Adrenaline.
(b) Oxygen.
(c) Carbohydrate.
(d) Carbon Dioxide.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. Joseph LeDoux works at the Center for Neural Science at what institution?

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

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

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