Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain Quiz | One Week Quiz A

David Eagleman
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Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain Quiz | One Week Quiz A

David Eagleman
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6 Why Blameworthiness Is the Wrong Question.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do our conscious minds remain unaware of in the analogy Eagleman offers?
(a) The way the images are recorded as fact but much more exists that the video camera does not capture.
(b) The way the images are bounced through the mind like light in a camera.
(c) The full story.
(d) The way the images fit together.

2. How does one blind rock climber use a mechanical device to help climb?
(a) The device beeps in code to say where a usable crack is locate.
(b) The device latches onto cracks and crevices and the climber follows the rope.
(c) The device transmits impulses through the climber's tongue.
(d) There is no such device developed yet; it is in prototype stage.

3. Of what are we unconscious when we move an arm?
(a) The flurry of neural impulses that caused the arm to move.
(b) Why we moved the arm.
(c) If our brain or eyes initiated the move.
(d) If the arm moved before or after we thought about moving it.

4. What studies does Eagleman look at in this chapter?
(a) Studies about how one distinguishes one smell from another.
(b) Studies that look at what people seem to find attractive in others.
(c) Studies about how one distinguishes one taste from another.
(d) Studies about how the brain processes input.

5. What does Eagleman think some people would have said about Whitman had he lived?
(a) He was not wholly responsible nor wholly blameless for his actions.
(b) He was totally responsible for his actions no matter what.
(c) He was responsible for his actions because he should have sought medical help.
(d) He was not responsible for his actions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eagleman say is difficult?

2. To what do human beings seem to be predisposed without prior learning?

3. Where does the incident take place that Eagleman describe from 1966?

4. What does Eagleman say we are at the mercy of?

5. What does the amygdala regulate?

(see the answer key)

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