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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 Mind: The Gap.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Eagleman say is the correct way to do this motion?
(a) Use a reference point to scribe the circle.
(b) Steer to the left, then straighten the wheel, then turn to the right.
(c) Move first clockwise, then counterclockwise.
(d) Steer to the right, then straighten the wheel, then turn to the left.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the device that takes visual input through a camera and translate it into impulses do?

3. What does Eagleman say seeing is?

4. What would happen if the people actually performed this motion in reality?

5. What does Eagleman say about the ways to measure how our unconscious minds affect our conscious thinking?

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