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

2. What part of the brain interprets the world through the sense of smell?
(a) The brainstem.
(b) The olfactory lobe.
(c) The neocortex.
(d) The amygdala.

3. 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 length of the distressing emotion.
(c) The switch to a different emotion.
(d) The intensity of that emotion.

4. Dr. Antonio Damasio labels what are commonly known as “gut feelings” with what term?
(a) Informal networks.
(b) Working memory.
(c) Emotions.
(d) Somatic markers.

5. What prison psychologist states that some psychopaths can learn empathy by playing the role of their victims and by hearing and reading the statements of their victims?
(a) Richard Davidson.
(b) William Pithers.
(c) Ted Huston.
(d) Peter Salovey.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Alfred Binet born?

2. Daniel Goleman currently co-directs the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations at what university?

3. John Mayer is a psychologist at what institution?

4. Dolf Zillmann is a psychologist at what university?

5. Joseph LeDoux found that sensory signals from the eye or ear go to the thalamus and then to what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What test of Robert Rosenthal’s is described in Part Two: Chapter 7, “The Roots of Empathy”? How is the test described?

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

3. What five categories of emotional intelligence are described in Part Two: Chapter 3, “When Smart Is Dumb”? Who names these categories?

4. 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”?

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

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

7. What did Daniel Stern term the process of reinforcing empathy in children? How is this defined in Part Two: Chapter 7, “The Roots of Empathy”?

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

9. What discovery did Joseph LeDoux make in the study of emotional hijacking?

10. How is alexithymia defined in Part Two: Chapter 4, “Know Thyself”? Who coined this term?

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