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We should be able to strike a balance between our thoughts and emotions.

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  1. True

  2. False

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:
Thoughts and emotions are very complexly related. Thoughts are mental activities such as our ideas, opinions, and beliefs. Thoughts are shaped by life experiences, genetics, and education. 
The emotions are the flow of feelings, for example, sadness, joy, fear etc. A person must strike a balance between thoughts and emotions because these two are intricately related. One must neither completely fall for emotions nor for thoughts. Our thoughts generate the emotions we feel and many times it is our emotions that generate our thoughts. We can be persuasive using only logic or only emotion, but the effect will be short-term and unbalanced.

Which of the following can be termed as emotions?

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  1. Anger and joy

  2. Sorrow and jealousy

  3. Disappointment and fear

  4. All of these

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Emotions are what people feel. It can be seen in all mammals. Emotions are caused by a complex mixture of hormones and the unconscious mind. Emotions are either positive or negative. Different types of emotions are anger, joy, fear. sorrow, jealousy, disappointment, surprise etc.

When someone hurts us, we feel happy.

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  1. True

  2. False

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Correct Option: B

When we learn to cope with our emotions _____________.

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  1. Our personality become balanced

  2. Our ability to understand others increases

  3. We can overcome adverse conditions

  4. All of these

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

When we learn to cope or manage our emotions following things happens:

1. Our personality becomes balanced.
2. We get to know a lot about ourselves.
3. our ability to understand other increases.
4. We connect with people easily.
5. We can overcome an adverse situation.
6. We learn to handle stress effectively.

We must know our flaws as well as our talents so that we can improve upon them.

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  1. True

  2. False

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Correct Option: A
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Hearing praise and appreciation of one's work or talent is undoubtedly motivational but one should pay heed to the critics also. One must hear the flaws or shortcoming to make improvisation. Getting impulsive on hearing critical remarks only make our performance worse.

Recognition of emotion tends to be most closely associated with the _________.

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  1. Temporal lobe

  2. Right hemisphere

  3. Left hemisphere

  4. Frontal lobe

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The two halves of the brain are believed to have different roles in emotional processing. The right hemisphere is dominant in the perception of facial expression, body posture, and prosody. The right hemisphere is important for processing primary emotions such as fear, anger, happiness, sadness etc. Recognition of emotion tends to be most closely associated with the right hemisphere.

The most widely and experimentally studied emotion is ____________.

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  1. Sadness

  2. Disgust

  3. Anger

  4. Fear

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Fear is a type of emotions. It is a feeling induced by perceived danger or threat. Fear of human being may occur in response to a specific stimulus occurring in present, or in anticipation or expectation of a future threat. It is one of the most widely and experimentally studied emotions. An irrational fear is called a phobia.

An inability to appreciate humour is most often associated with damage to the ________.

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  1. Anterior right frontal lobe

  2. Left temporal lobe

  3. Left frontal lobe

  4. Right temporal lobe

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The frontal lobes are considered to be our emotional control center and home to our personality. The right frontal lobe plays a role in non-verbal abilities. Frontal lobe damage seems to have an impact on divergent thinking or flexibility or problem-solving ability. A damage to anterior right frontal lobe leads to an inability to appreciate humour. The individual with damage in this region also reacted less, with diminished physical or emotional response.

Temper tantrums reach their peak between ___________.

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  1. Two and Three Years

  2. Four and Five Years

  3. Three and Four Years

  4. Six and Seven Years

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

A tantrum, temper tantrum, meltdown, or hissy fit is an emotional outburst usually associated with children or those in emotional distress, that is typically characterized by stubbornness, crying, screaming, defiance, angry rating etc. Temper tantrums reach their peak between three and four hours. In some cases, physical control of the brain may get lost due to extreme anger.