Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

David Eagleman
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 156 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

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 was one routine in charge of?
(a) Finding the block.
(b) Writing down each degree of latitude.
(c) Recording moisture readings.
(d) Spotting the numbers.

2. What problem does Eagleman describe in illustrating how the mind may be divided?
(a) Counting recurring numbers without missing one.
(b) An early problem in the development of artificial intelligence.
(c) The problem of longitude.
(d) When developing the polygraph, how to distinguish between saying one thing and expressing something different with body language.

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

4. What does Eagleman say about people who marry that is related to the idea of implicit egotism?
(a) That people who possess little ego tend not to marry.
(b) That one marries someone whose egotism reflects their own feelings about themselves.
(c) That the number of people who marry people whose first names begin with the same letter as their own is statistically significant.
(d) That people who marry seem to suffer less from implicit egotism.

5. How does Eagleman explain the phenomenon as to how men made their choices in the experiment?
(a) Men are attracted to women who have the same ethnic looks as themselves.
(b) It is socially ingrained from advertisements.
(c) The cars that men chose were the ones that had the most attractive women standing by them.
(d) It goes back to the early history of humankind.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who cannot immediately discern depth and movement as someone who has had vision since birth?

3. When does Arthur Alberts travel from New York to Africa?

4. How old was Charles Whitman when he died?

5. What happens when a rat is presented with a similar dilemma as the one in question 129?

(see the answer key)

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