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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 seems natural to most people?
(a) Believing what we see is real.
(b) Seeing.
(c) Processing physical data.
(d) Thinking.

2. What happens when one's brain changes?
(a) The person is no longer functional.
(b) The person can become a genius.
(c) The person cannot change.
(d) The person changes.

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

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

5. 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) As soon as the brain processes the sound of the ball's approach.
(c) Before the brain has time to visually process the ball.
(d) The instant they hear the ball leave the pitcher's hand.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eagleman say about people who marry that is related to the idea of implicit egotism?

2. What are those people called who sort out baby chickens by their gender?

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

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

5. What does the amount of brain effort that vision uses indicate about vision?

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