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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Eagleman say about implicit egotism?
(a) It is can wreck havoc on experiments with the unconscious mind.
(b) It is a well-established phenomenon.
(c) It is merely a theory that is impossible to prove.
(d) It is impossible to know how much of the egotism is conscious or unconscious.

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

3. What are our brains wired to do as far as complicated tasks are concerned?
(a) Let the unconscious mind perform the task.
(b) Study the task carefully and then consciously decide which part of the brain would be best to perform the task.
(c) To consciously send the task to the unconscious mind to learn and then teach the conscious mind.
(d) To take the task apart and consciously learn it in steps.

4. If someone moves slightly towards the word dislike before choosing the word like, what does that indicate?
(a) The experiment is weighted unfairly.
(b) A conflict between the unconscious and conscious minds.
(c) The experiment is set up poorly.
(d) The person is undecided.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How much of the activity of our brain does the conscious mind represent?

2. What happens to May after some time of having his sight back?

3. What does Eagleman say can happen even after we learn to see?

4. What does Alberts record?

5. What happens when one's brain changes?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is one's conscious mind limited and how does this make the mind more difficult to understand?

2. What does Eagleman say about how vision works?

3. What has to shift in order to fully appreciate the small role of the unconscious and to what does Eagleman compare that shift?

4. What does Eagleman say our intuition tells us about our experience of the world and is the intuition accurate?

5. What does Eagleman say Sigmund Freud understood?

6. What does Eagleman say the experiment with the photographs of women illustrates?

7. Who is Mike May and what happens to him?

8. How does Eagleman offer an analogy of one's awareness to a newspaper headline?

9. Explain the example of the chicken sexers that Eagleman discusses.

10. What is the simple experiment Eagleman asks the reader to perform?

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