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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6 Why Blameworthiness Is the Wrong Question.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did an autopsy of Whitman find?
(a) He was on ten different types of medicins.
(b) He was drunk when he died.
(c) He was severely abused as a child.
(d) He had a brain tumor.

2. What is the significant fact in the two showings to the men?
(a) The men invariably chose the same in either situation.
(b) It has little to do with appearance, but more to do with the time they had to look at the pictures.
(c) The men invariably chose differently in each situation.
(d) The men seemed to randomly choose preferences no matter the amount of time exposed to the images.

3. Of what are we unconscious when we move an arm?
(a) Why we moved the arm.
(b) The flurry of neural impulses that caused the arm to move.
(c) If our brain or eyes initiated the move.
(d) If the arm moved before or after we thought about moving it.

4. When does Arthur Alberts travel from New York to Africa?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1989.
(c) 2004.
(d) 1997.

5. At what do babies tend to look?
(a) Faces.
(b) Their own hands.
(c) Hands.
(d) The heart are where the sound of the heart beat is.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the amygdala regulate?

2. How is what a person likes determined?

3. From what was Alex suffering at the time?

4. Who is Charles Whitman?

5. What have we humans thrown ourselves into deciphering?

(see the answer key)

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