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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 Mind: The Gap.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What tells us that we experience the world as it actually exists?
(a) Our intuition.
(b) Our knowledge.
(c) Our senses.
(d) Our previous experiences.

2. To what does Eagleman compare consciousness?
(a) A camera.
(b) A video recorder.
(c) A newspaper.
(d) A kaleidoscope.

3. How do sorters learn to do their job?
(a) By reading a how-to book.
(b) By studying videos of how to sort.
(c) By an expert sorter correcting a novice.
(d) By watching experts sort.

4. What are we actually unaware of?
(a) What is happening in real time.
(b) What is happening.
(c) Subtleties of change.
(d) The small nuances.

5. To what does the author compare a single brain cell in its complexity?
(a) A city.
(b) A ball team.
(c) A maze.
(d) A village.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the novice sorter eventually do in order to become an expert sorter?

2. How is what a person likes determined?

3. Who cannot immediately discern depth and movement as someone who has had vision since birth?

4. What does Eagleman say about the ways to measure how our unconscious minds affect our conscious thinking?

5. What is the consistency of the brain?

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