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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. Of what is the phenomenon of depth being stimulated on a flat page an example?
(a) Third dimension painting.
(b) Optical illusions.
(c) Magic.
(d) The hand is quicker than the eye.

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

3. What tells us that we experience the world as it actually exists?
(a) Our senses.
(b) Our knowledge.
(c) Our previous experiences.
(d) Our intuition.

4. To what are innumerable facets of ourselves linked?
(a) The nervous system.
(b) The limbic system.
(c) The heart and brain.
(d) The circulatory system.

5. What does the device that takes visual input through a camera and translate it into impulses do?
(a) It enables the brain to see without eyes.
(b) It demonstrates the mechanics of sight.
(c) There is no such machine.
(d) It is a means of giving a computer "sight."

Short Answer Questions

1. When do major league baseball players begin their swing while batting?

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

3. How does the author refer to the brain?

4. In what number range does the author say the brain cells count?

5. What is another type of brain cell?

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