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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. How does the author refer to the brain?
(a) As the mission control center.
(b) As five pounds of power.
(c) As the organ that works in tandem with the heart.
(d) As the guts of the individual life.
2. What does Eagleman say about the ability to sort?
(a) It is related to the ability to reason abstractly.
(b) It eventually becomes automatic and becomes an unconscious process.
(c) You either have the ability at the very beginning or you can never learn it.
(d) It is related to the ability to draw.
3. To what are innumerable facets of ourselves linked?
(a) The circulatory system.
(b) The heart and brain.
(c) The nervous system.
(d) The limbic system.
4. What does each brain cell send to other cells?
(a) Oxygen.
(b) Messages for interpretation.
(c) Food.
(d) Electrical impulses.
5. What are we actually unaware of?
(a) What is happening.
(b) The small nuances.
(c) Subtleties of change.
(d) What is happening in real time.
Short Answer Questions
1. To what does the author compare a single brain cell in its complexity?
2. What are those people called who sort out baby chickens by their gender?
3. Why did the subjects say about why they chose the pictures of the women that they did?
4. How does May first react to his new sight?
5. What does Eagleman say about the ways to measure how our unconscious minds affect our conscious thinking?
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