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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 is something the brain has to learn?
(a) Thinking.
(b) Moving electrical impulses.
(c) Seeing.
(d) Making contacts among synapses.

2. What does each human brain cell contain in its entirety?
(a) The human genome.
(b) A way to process information.
(c) A way to produce energy.
(d) A way to manufacture food.

3. What have we humans thrown ourselves into deciphering?
(a) Our means of connecting the brain to the heart.
(b) Our own programming language.
(c) The language of individual, specialized cells.
(d) Our emotional world.

4. How does the author describe parts of the brain?
(a) As self-configuring.
(b) As discrete units that can be individually programmed.
(c) As radically different one from the other.
(d) As independent of each other.

5. What is meant by "implicit egotism"?
(a) The tendency for most people to like themselves.
(b) The tendency for the ego to determine prejudice.
(c) The belief in psychology that the ego is not real.
(d) The way the ego receives implied beliefs from the unconscious.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is one of the types of cells in the brain?

3. Whose brains must learn to make sense of visual input coming in?

4. What does Eagleman say can happen even after we learn to see?

5. What illustrations does Eagleman present to show the concept from question 44?

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