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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. How does one device "show" a blind person his/her proximity to objects?
(a) It beeps when its sensors notice an object in the person's path.
(b) It pushes the person in one direction or another when it senses an obstacle.
(c) It uses a series of electrodes on the back that pulsed in different ways according to the person's proximity to objects.
(d) It gives a slight electrical shock to the person's arm where it is attached.

2. What is one of the types of cells in the brain?
(a) Hepatic.
(b) Neurons.
(c) Erythrocytes.
(d) Nephrons.

3. What indicates a state of sexual arousal in women?
(a) It varies individual to individual.
(b) Dilated eyes.
(c) Lack of focus.
(d) Closed eyes.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens to May after some time of having his sight back?

3. What does Eagleman say seeing is?

4. Why did the subjects say about why they chose the pictures of the women that they did?

5. What is the consistency of the brain?

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