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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. How much of the activity of our brain does the conscious mind represent?
(a) About half of the activity.
(b) There is no way of judging that.
(c) A small part.
(d) Most of the activity.

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

3. What does Alberts record?
(a) The sounds of many bird species.
(b) The sounds of the lions.
(c) African music.
(d) The sounds of the insect world of Africa.

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

5. What was disorienting for May?
(a) The way steps seemed unattached to the earth.
(b) The way shapes affected the appearance of colors.
(c) The sudden shift of objects in his visual field when he turned his head.
(d) The way colors affected the appearance of shapes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What indicates a state of sexual arousal in women?

2. What are two examples of optical illusions?

3. What do our conscious minds remain unaware of in the analogy Eagleman offers?

4. What does Eagleman say about implicit egotism?

5. What have we humans thrown ourselves into deciphering?

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