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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2 The Testimony of the Senses: What Is Experience Really Like?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when one's brain changes?
(a) The person cannot change.
(b) The person changes.
(c) The person can become a genius.
(d) The person is no longer functional.

2. What do dilated eyes have to do with the experiment the author mentions?
(a) The men were more attracted to women with dilated eyes.
(b) It is a measure of the light used.
(c) It is a way to tell if the participant is looking directly at the computer screen.
(d) Dilated eyes have nothing to do with the experiment.

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

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

5. What happens to May after some time of having his sight back?
(a) He makes sense of the world in a different way than lifelong sighted people.
(b) He learns to make sense of the visual world.
(c) He learns to interpret the world around him except for objects in the distance.
(d) He never really adjusts and went to wearing a mask over his eyes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is another type of brain cell?

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

3. How complex is the human brain?

4. What illustrations does Eagleman present to show the concept from question 44?

5. What is the consistency of the brain?

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