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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 does the author call self-healing material?
(a) The brain.
(b) Internal organs.
(c) The skin.
(d) Bones.

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

3. What does Eagleman say about implicit egotism?
(a) It is can wreck havoc on experiments with the unconscious mind.
(b) It is merely a theory that is impossible to prove.
(c) It is a well-established phenomenon.
(d) It is impossible to know how much of the egotism is conscious or unconscious.

4. How is what a person likes determined?
(a) Largely by unconscious thinking.
(b) By careful consideration of the conscious mind with input from the unconscious mind.
(c) Largely by conscious thinking.
(d) There is no way to know that.

5. What gap does Eagleman explore?
(a) Between what you want to see and what is actually there.
(b) Between what your eyes see and what your brain shows you.
(c) Between what your brain receives in impulses and what it can interpret.
(d) Between what your brain knows and your mind is capable of accessing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eagleman say about the ability to sort?

2. What do dilated eyes have to do with the experiment the author mentions?

3. What does Eagleman say is the correct way to do this motion?

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

5. If someone moves slightly towards the word dislike before choosing the word like, what does that indicate?

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