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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. Whose brains must learn to make sense of visual input coming in?
(a) People who move to a different culture.
(b) Blind people who recover their sight.
(c) People who start wearing glasses.
(d) People who have had an eye injured and do not see out of it for a while.

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

3. What does Eagleman say can happen even after we learn to see?
(a) Our vision can be fooled.
(b) Our sight can be erratic.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Our sight can be inaccurate.

4. What is the most important part of seeing?
(a) How seeing enables social interaction.
(b) How seeing stimulates the brain to be more productive.
(c) What the unconscious brain does with the information.
(d) How one uses the information gained by sight.

5. What is the consistency of the brain?
(a) Peanut butter.
(b) Milk.
(c) Bread.
(d) Jello.

Short Answer Questions

1. How often does one cell send something to other cells?

2. How much of our brain is devoted to sight?

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

4. What is another type of brain cell?

5. How does one blind rock climber use a mechanical device to help climb?

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