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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The author refers to EI as which of the following?
(a) An inherited gene.
(b) A meta-ability.
(c) An adverse reaction.
(d) A clinical disease.

3. What name refers to the groups of nuclei in the limbic system which store emotional memory assigning meaning to feelings?
(a) The amygdala.
(b) The brainstem.
(c) The olfactory lobe.
(d) The neocortex.

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

5. What researcher argues that the roots of morality come from empathy?
(a) Robert Hare.
(b) Martin Hoffman.
(c) Jerome Kagan.
(d) Richard Davidson.

6. According to the author in Part Two: Chapter 6, “The Master Aptitude,” the superior achievement of Asian-Americans comes more from what than from IQ?
(a) Effort and determination.
(b) Genetics and environment.
(c) Politics and religion.
(d) Culture and music.

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

8. The left pre-frontal lobe of the brain can turn off or dampen what emotion?
(a) Love.
(b) Anger.
(c) Distress.
(d) Empathy.

9. About how many years ago did mammals develop a neocortex?
(a) 400,000.
(b) 20 million.
(c) 100 million.
(d) 2,000.

10. In 1916, at Stanford University, what psychologist released a revised examination which became known as the "Stanford–Binet test"?
(a) Robert Hare.
(b) Robert Levenson.
(c) Bruce McEven.
(d) Lewis Terman.

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

12. What surrounds the brain stem like a ring providing improved tools for survival such as learning and memory?
(a) The limbic system.
(b) The olfactory lobe.
(c) The amygdala.
(d) The neocortex.

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

14. In philosophy, what is the characteristic of any action, belief, or desire that makes their choice a necessity?
(a) Rationality.
(b) Confidence.
(c) Attunement.
(d) Relatedness.

15. 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?
(a) Anger management.
(b) Objective thinking.
(c) Neural hijacking.
(d) Fear conditioning.

Short Answer Questions

1. John Mayer is a psychologist at what institution?

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

3. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi refers to a state of high concentration, self-forgetfulness, and mild ecstasy as being what?

4. John Mayer names three styles of handling one’s emotions. What is the first?

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

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