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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 do our conscious minds remain unaware of in the analogy Eagleman offers?
(a) The way the images are bounced through the mind like light in a camera.
(b) The way the images are recorded as fact but much more exists that the video camera does not capture.
(c) The full story.
(d) The way the images fit together.

2. What does Eagleman claim most people possess?
(a) A natural tendency to like others.
(b) A natural tendency to dislike ourselves.
(c) A natural tendency to like ourselves.
(d) A natural tendency to dislike ourselves.

3. What are we actually unaware of?
(a) The small nuances.
(b) Subtleties of change.
(c) What is happening in real time.
(d) What is happening.

4. What does each brain cell send to other cells?
(a) Food.
(b) Oxygen.
(c) Electrical impulses.
(d) Messages for interpretation.

5. How does the author describe parts of the brain?
(a) As radically different one from the other.
(b) As independent of each other.
(c) As discrete units that can be individually programmed.
(d) As self-configuring.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How far in the past do we actually "live"?

3. What does the author call self-healing material?

4. How does Alberts convince one African that the native's tongue is still intact?

5. If someone moves slightly towards the word dislike before choosing the word like, what does that indicate?

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