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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 The Kinds of Thoughts That Are Thinkable.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What tells us that we experience the world as it actually exists?
(a) Our intuition.
(b) Our senses.
(c) Our previous experiences.
(d) Our knowledge.

2. Why did the subjects say about why they chose the pictures of the women that they did?
(a) They had various reasons but none mentioned dilated eyes.
(b) The men were not asked why they chose the pictures.
(c) All the men mentioned the dilated eyes.
(d) Only two mentioned that they thought women's eyes were sexier dilated.

3. What is another type of brain cell?
(a) Glia.
(b) Leukocytes.
(c) Neutrophils.
(d) Nephrons.

4. What does the amount of brain effort that vision uses indicate about vision?
(a) Vision is a very simple process of mirrors and reflections.
(b) Vision is an extremely complex process.
(c) The brain is so capable, it doesn't take much of it for any sensory input.
(d) It can take place while easily freeing the brain for other matters.

5. How does Eagleman compare thinking with seeing?
(a) There are thoughts that we cannot think, just as there are wavelengths of light we cannot see.
(b) Both involve the same area of the left brain.
(c) Both involve the right brain.
(d) Neither are infallible.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Of what are we unconscious when we move an arm?

3. What indicates a state of sexual arousal in women?

4. How does Eagleman explain the phenomenon as to how men made their choices in the experiment?

5. What does Eagleman say seeing is?

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