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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 The Kinds of Thoughts That Are Thinkable.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Chapter 4 explore?
(a) The limits to our unconscious thinking.
(b) The ways our conscious thinking get us in trouble.
(c) The limits to our conscious thinking.
(d) How the conscious and unconscious minds can be complementary.

2. What does Eagleman say about the ways to measure how our unconscious minds affect our conscious thinking?
(a) There are ways of measuring without even knowing one is doing so.
(b) It is impossible to measure such a thing.
(c) It is a hit and miss sort of thing.
(d) Eagleman says he will not go into that idea.

3. What is exceptional about the creature mentioned in question 89?
(a) They can smell odors after weeks have passed.
(b) They can smell an odor on the air even after several days.
(c) They can sense a whole range of odors that human beings cannot sense.
(d) They can smell the fleas on them.

4. Who is one person the author mentions as understanding the arrangement between the conscious and unconscious mind?
(a) Johnson.
(b) Ericksson.
(c) Freud.
(d) Jung.

5. How does one device "show" a blind person his/her proximity to objects?
(a) It pushes the person in one direction or another when it senses an obstacle.
(b) It gives a slight electrical shock to the person's arm where it is attached.
(c) It beeps when its sensors notice an object in the person's path.
(d) It uses a series of electrodes on the back that pulsed in different ways according to the person's proximity to objects.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much of the activity of our brain does the conscious mind represent?

2. Why did the subjects say about why they chose the pictures of the women that they did?

3. How many connections does a typical neuron make to neighboring neurons?

4. At what age does Mike May lose his vision?

5. How much of the wavelengths of light do our eyes see?

(see the answer key)

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