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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. Charisma combines four separate interpersonal intelligence components. What is the fourth?

2. Charisma combines four separate interpersonal intelligence components. What is the second?

3. Emotions, like instincts, have helped humans survive by doing what, according to the author in Part One: Chapter 1, “What Are Emotions For?”

4. What is medically recognized as a mental and emotional condition in which a person experiences intense feelings of depression, discontent and indifference to the world around them?

5. Dr. Antonio Damasio works at the College of Medicine at what university?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the purposes of emotions? How have they helped human survival, according to the author in Part One: Chapter 1, “What Are Emotions For?”

2. How is emotional hijacking described in Part One: Chapter 2, “Anatomy of an Emotional Hijacking”?

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

4. 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”?

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

6. How is the amygdala capable of surpassing the neocortex in moments of emotional hijacking?

7. How is dyssemia defined in Part Two: Chapter 8, “The Social Arts”? How common is dyssemia?

8. How does the author compare IQ and EI in Part Two: Chapter 3, “When Smart Is Dumb”?

9. What did Dolf Zillmann discover about anger, according to the author in Part Two: Chapter 5, “Passion's Slaves”?

10. The growth of the human fetal brain parallels the evolution of the brain in other species. What is the first part of the brain to develop and what purpose does this part of the brain serve?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the work of Robert Rosenthal and the Profile of Nonverbal Sensitivity. When was this test developed? What does the test entail? How adequate is the test in determining individual success and/or happiness?

Essay Topic 2

Define and analyze repressors. What biological elements are involved in the behavior of these individuals? What psychological elements are involved? How do repressors learn to express their emotions?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the work of Paul Ekman and describe the three display rules described by Ekman in Part Two: Chapter 8, “The Social Arts.” What are examples of each of these rules? What dictates the display of each emotion?

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