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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. Who is one person the author mentions as understanding the arrangement between the conscious and unconscious mind?
(a) Jung.
(b) Freud.
(c) Johnson.
(d) Ericksson.

2. What does Eagleman say about the ability to sort?
(a) It is related to the ability to reason abstractly.
(b) It is related to the ability to draw.
(c) It eventually becomes automatic and becomes an unconscious process.
(d) You either have the ability at the very beginning or you can never learn it.

3. When an action becomes automatic, what part of the brain is controlling it?
(a) The superconscious mind.
(b) It depends upon what the action entails.
(c) The conscious mind.
(d) The unconscious mind.

4. By what are thoughts underpinned?
(a) Electrical waves.
(b) Fluids.
(c) Sound.
(d) Physical stuff.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the author compare a single brain cell in its complexity?

2. What is difficult to do when it comes to sorting young chickens?

3. What does an experiment that has people associate words such as "like" or "dislike" measure?

4. What are our brains wired to do as far as complicated tasks are concerned?

5. What does each human brain cell contain in its entirety?

(see the answer key)

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