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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Psychologist C. R. Snyder studied students’ grades in relation to their level of what?
2. Daniel Goleman currently co-directs the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations at what university?
3. Dolf Zillmann is a psychologist at what university?
4. In a study by psychologist Martin Seligman, salesmen who were optimists sold how much more insurance in their first two years on the job than did pessimists?
5. The left pre-frontal lobe of the brain can turn off or dampen what emotion?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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”?
2. What are positive uses of emotion, according to the author in Part Two: Chapter 6, “The Master Aptitude”?
3. What discovery did Joseph LeDoux make in the study of emotional hijacking?
4. What two methods does Dolf Zillmann give for diffusing anger in Part Two: Chapter 5, “Passion's Slaves”?
5. What are the purposes of the left and right pre-frontal lobes in the brain?
6. What discovery did Walter Mischel make through his experiments in the 1960s?
7. What biological explanation is given as a possible cause for alexithymia in Part Two: Chapter 4, “Know Thyself”?
8. What does Howard Gardner suggest regarding EI in Part Two: Chapter 3, “When Smart Is Dumb”?
9. What did William Pithers discover about empathy in psychopaths, according to the author in Part Two: Chapter 7, “The Roots of Empathy”?
10. What did Dolf Zillmann discover about anger, according to the author in Part Two: Chapter 5, “Passion's Slaves”?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe and analyze the process of emotional or neural hijacking. What studies have been conducted on this process? How is it defined biologically? How does a person behave when they are emotionally hijacked?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the research of Doff Zillmann and his studies at the University of Alabama. What did Zillmann discover to be the trigger for anger? Is this theory contested? What methods does Zillmann give for diffusing anger?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the work of Harry Levinson. What advice does Levinson give his clients as a corporate consultant? What are the effects of bad management? How does Levinson suggest managers approach employees?
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