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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What researcher argues that the roots of morality come from empathy?

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

5. What psychologist developed a test for empathy called the Profile of Nonverbal Sensitivity?

Short Essay Questions

1. What four interpersonal intelligence components make up charisma, according to the author in Part Two: Chapter 8, “The Social Arts”? Who defined these components?

2. What did William Pithers discover about empathy in psychopaths, according to the author in Part Two: Chapter 7, “The Roots of Empathy”?

3. What are the purposes of the left and right pre-frontal lobes in the brain?

4. What does Howard Gardner suggest regarding EI in Part Two: Chapter 3, “When Smart Is Dumb”?

5. Psychologist John Mayer, of the University of New Hampshire, names three styles of handling one's emotions. How are these described in Part Two: Chapter 4, “Know Thyself”?

6. How does researcher Paul Ekman describe his three “display rules” for emotions in Part Two: Chapter 8, “The Social Arts”?

7. What test did Walter Mischel devise in the 1960s? How is the test described in Part Two: Chapter 6, “The Master Aptitude”?

8. What is the purpose of the neocortex? When was the neocortex developed in mammals?

9. What study of C. R. Snyder’s is described in Part Two: Chapter 6, “The Master Aptitude”? What did his results indicate?

10. Psychologists Lizabeth Roemer and Thomas Borkovecresearched worry and recommend two steps to reverse the worry habit. How are these described in Part Two: Chapter 5, “Passion's Slaves”?

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