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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 each brain cell send to other cells?
(a) Oxygen.
(b) Electrical impulses.
(c) Messages for interpretation.
(d) Food.

2. How far in the past do we actually "live"?
(a) A second or two.
(b) We actually live slightly into the future.
(c) Sometimes up to a minute.
(d) A few milliseconds.

3. Whose brains must learn to make sense of visual input coming in?
(a) Blind people who recover their sight.
(b) People who have had an eye injured and do not see out of it for a while.
(c) People who move to a different culture.
(d) People who start wearing glasses.

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

5. Of what are we unconscious when we move an arm?
(a) If the arm moved before or after we thought about moving it.
(b) If our brain or eyes initiated the move.
(c) The flurry of neural impulses that caused the arm to move.
(d) Why we moved the arm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were men asked to rate in an experiment the author cites?

2. What does Eagleman claim most people possess?

3. What is something the brain has to learn?

4. At what age does Mike May lose his vision?

5. How does one blind rock climber use a mechanical device to help climb?

(see the answer key)

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