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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6 Why Blameworthiness Is the Wrong Question.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Eagleman think people find the second puzzle easier to solve?
(a) Most people more easily process information framed it in a social context.
(b) They were told the second puzzle was easier.
(c) They had practice with the first puzzle and it was in their unconscious.
(d) They were told the first puzzle was easier.

2. What does Eagleton point out in the beginning of the chapter about our senses?
(a) They are limited.
(b) They are an illusion.
(c) They only exist to serve the mind.
(d) They only exist to serve the body.

3. What can insects do that human beings cannot do?
(a) They can see both sound and light.
(b) Insects can see wavelengths we cannot see.
(c) They can hear light as well as see it.
(d) They can see the entire spectrum of light.

4. How far in the past do we actually "live"?
(a) Sometimes up to a minute.
(b) A few milliseconds.
(c) We actually live slightly into the future.
(d) A second or two.

5. What is something the brain has to learn?
(a) Moving electrical impulses.
(b) Seeing.
(c) Making contacts among synapses.
(d) Thinking.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the eyes of blind people who recover their sight work compared to persons who are sighted since birth?

2. What does the amygdala regulate?

3. To what do human beings seem to be predisposed without prior learning?

4. What assumption is at the core of the American legal system?

5. What does Eagleman think some people would have said about Whitman had he lived?

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