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

2. What illustrations does Eagleman present to show the concept from question 44?
(a) Illustrations of optical illusions.
(b) Illustrations of pictures within pictures.
(c) Illustrations of the eye structure.
(d) Illustrations of how the eye can move too fast to be accurate.

3. 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 from novels to short stores.
(c) They have been compressed to dots.
(d) The processes have been compressed into headlines.

4. When do major league baseball players begin their swing while batting?
(a) Before the brain has time to visually process the ball.
(b) As soon as the brain processes the sound of the ball's approach.
(c) As soon as the brain has time to visually process the ball.
(d) The instant they hear the ball leave the pitcher's hand.

5. How complex is the human brain?
(a) No one knows.
(b) Parts are simple and parts are somewhat complex.
(c) Fairly simple.
(d) Almost unfathomably complex.

Short Answer Questions

1. About how many pounds does a brain weigh?

2. What happens when one's brain changes?

3. What are we actually unaware of?

4. Why does Alberts take along a tape recorder on his journey?

5. What are two examples of optical illusions?

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