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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 The Brain Is a Team of Rivals.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Eagleman say about implicit egotism?
(a) It is a well-established phenomenon.
(b) It is merely a theory that is impossible to prove.
(c) It is impossible to know how much of the egotism is conscious or unconscious.
(d) It is can wreck havoc on experiments with the unconscious mind.
2. What are two competing aspects of the brain which Eagleman mentions?
(a) Emotional and psychological.
(b) Rational and irrational.
(c) Rational and emotional.
(d) Rational and psychological.
3. How is what a person likes determined?
(a) Largely by conscious thinking.
(b) There is no way to know that.
(c) Largely by unconscious thinking.
(d) By careful consideration of the conscious mind with input from the unconscious mind.
4. At what do babies tend to look?
(a) The heart are where the sound of the heart beat is.
(b) Faces.
(c) Their own hands.
(d) Hands.
5. How is the problem solved?
(a) Making the recurring numbers bolder.
(b) Breaking the task into smaller routines.
(c) Finding how latitude is divided first.
(d) Using skin pads.
Short Answer Questions
1. If someone moves slightly towards the word dislike before choosing the word like, what does that indicate?
2. How complex is the human brain?
3. What does Eagleman say is difficult?
4. What does Eagleman think is a good model for how the brain works?
5. What does the novice sorter eventually do in order to become an expert sorter?
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