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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2 The Testimony of the Senses: What Is Experience Really Like?.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is another type of brain cell?
(a) Glia.
(b) Nephrons.
(c) Neutrophils.
(d) Leukocytes.
2. What is something the brain has to learn?
(a) Seeing.
(b) Making contacts among synapses.
(c) Thinking.
(d) Moving electrical impulses.
3. How does one device "show" a blind person his/her proximity to objects?
(a) It beeps when its sensors notice an object in the person's path.
(b) It uses a series of electrodes on the back that pulsed in different ways according to the person's proximity to objects.
(c) It gives a slight electrical shock to the person's arm where it is attached.
(d) It pushes the person in one direction or another when it senses an obstacle.
4. How does the author describe parts of the brain?
(a) As discrete units that can be individually programmed.
(b) As self-configuring.
(c) As independent of each other.
(d) As radically different one from the other.
5. What are we actually unaware of?
(a) The small nuances.
(b) Subtleties of change.
(c) What is happening.
(d) What is happening in real time.
Short Answer Questions
1. How do the eyes of blind people who recover their sight work compared to persons who are sighted since birth?
2. To what are innumerable facets of ourselves linked?
3. What have we humans thrown ourselves into deciphering?
4. Of what is the phenomenon of depth being stimulated on a flat page an example?
5. What is one of the types of cells in the brain?
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