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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 does Eagleman say has happened to complicated processes in his analogy of consciousness?
(a) They have been jumbled into split images.
(b) They have been compressed to dots.
(c) The processes have been compressed into headlines.
(d) They have been compressed from novels to short stores.

2. How do photographs of different races reveal something about the mind?
(a) Prejudice can be hidden in the unconscious.
(b) The conscious mind might be prejudice but most will not acknowledge their feelings.
(c) It demonstrates how sight affects conscious choices.
(d) It shows how sight is both an unconscious and conscious action.

3. How much of the wavelengths of light do our eyes see?
(a) Most of it.
(b) Mostly the bands at either end.
(c) Only a small portion.
(d) Mostly the middle 1/3.

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

5. What does Eagleman say seeing is?
(a) A skill that will someday be obsolete.
(b) An ability that is easy to mimic with computers.
(c) An overrated skill.
(d) A complex series of lower and higher mental processes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is another type of brain cell?

2. How do sorters learn to do their job?

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

4. What is meant by "implicit egotism"?

5. How does the author refer to the brain?

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