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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 does the amount of brain effort that vision uses indicate about vision?
(a) The brain is so capable, it doesn't take much of it for any sensory input.
(b) Vision is a very simple process of mirrors and reflections.
(c) Vision is an extremely complex process.
(d) It can take place while easily freeing the brain for other matters.

2. What is something the brain has to learn?
(a) Moving electrical impulses.
(b) Making contacts among synapses.
(c) Thinking.
(d) Seeing.

3. What indicates a state of sexual arousal in women?
(a) It varies individual to individual.
(b) Dilated eyes.
(c) Lack of focus.
(d) Closed eyes.

4. What does Eagleman say has happened to complicated processes in his analogy of consciousness?
(a) They have been compressed from novels to short stores.
(b) The processes have been compressed into headlines.
(c) They have been compressed to dots.
(d) They have been jumbled into split images.

5. What is one of the types of cells in the brain?
(a) Erythrocytes.
(b) Neurons.
(c) Hepatic.
(d) Nephrons.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are two examples of optical illusions?

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

4. What is the consistency of the brain?

5. What do most of us notice in the world around us?

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