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

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 | Eight Week Quiz D

David Eagleman
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 156 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. If someone moves slightly towards the word dislike before choosing the word like, what does that indicate?
(a) The person is undecided.
(b) The experiment is weighted unfairly.
(c) The experiment is set up poorly.
(d) A conflict between the unconscious and conscious minds.

2. What is the point of the exercise Eagleman has readers perform?
(a) To understand the we do many things unconsciously that are difficult to recreate with the conscious mind.
(b) To show that the eyes visualize one thing while the brain carries it out another way.
(c) To see how many will accept directions from a book.
(d) To show that scribing geometric forms without a point of reference is almost impossible.

3. When do major league baseball players begin their swing while batting?
(a) The instant they hear the ball leave the pitcher's hand.
(b) As soon as the brain processes the sound of the ball's approach.
(c) Before the brain has time to visually process the ball.
(d) As soon as the brain has time to visually process the ball.

4. What happens to May after some time of having his sight back?
(a) He never really adjusts and went to wearing a mask over his eyes.
(b) He makes sense of the world in a different way than lifelong sighted people.
(c) He learns to interpret the world around him except for objects in the distance.
(d) He learns to make sense of the visual world.

5. What does Eagleman say can get in the way of our efficiency?
(a) Our own tunnel vision.
(b) Being conscious of our actions.
(c) Other people's ideas of how something should be done.
(d) Other people's opinions.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do hallways challenge May when he regains his sight?

3. Why does Alberts take along a tape recorder on his journey?

4. What illustrations does Eagleman present to show the concept from question 44?

5. What does Eagleman say is the correct way to do this motion?

(see the answer key)

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