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

David Eagleman
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Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

David Eagleman
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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. How often does one cell send something to other cells?
(a) Hundreds of times per second.
(b) At least daily.
(c) A few times an hour.
(d) Whenever it has the energy to do so.

2. What is the most important part of seeing?
(a) What the unconscious brain does with the information.
(b) How seeing stimulates the brain to be more productive.
(c) How one uses the information gained by sight.
(d) How seeing enables social interaction.

3. Why does Alberts take along a tape recorder on his journey?
(a) To tape his observations.
(b) Because of his love of gadgetry.
(c) To tape his last moments if he is dying.
(d) Because of his love of music.

4. How does the author refer to the brain?
(a) As the mission control center.
(b) As the guts of the individual life.
(c) As the organ that works in tandem with the heart.
(d) As five pounds of power.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are we actually unaware of?

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

3. Of what is the phenomenon of depth being stimulated on a flat page an example?

4. Who is one person the author mentions as understanding the arrangement between the conscious and unconscious mind?

5. To what does Eagleman compare consciousness?

(see the answer key)

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