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

2. When do major league baseball players begin their swing while batting?
(a) As soon as the brain has time to visually process the ball.
(b) Before the brain has time to visually process the ball.
(c) The instant they hear the ball leave the pitcher's hand.
(d) As soon as the brain processes the sound of the ball's approach.

3. How complex is the human brain?
(a) Almost unfathomably complex.
(b) No one knows.
(c) Parts are simple and parts are somewhat complex.
(d) Fairly simple.

4. What does the amount of brain effort that vision uses indicate about vision?
(a) Vision is a very simple process of mirrors and reflections.
(b) It can take place while easily freeing the brain for other matters.
(c) The brain is so capable, it doesn't take much of it for any sensory input.
(d) Vision is an extremely complex process.

5. What does Eagleman say can get in the way of our efficiency?
(a) Other people's opinions.
(b) Being conscious of our actions.
(c) Other people's ideas of how something should be done.
(d) Our own tunnel vision.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What tells us that we experience the world as it actually exists?

3. How do photographs of different races reveal something about the mind?

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

5. What is something the brain has to learn?

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