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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 indicates a state of sexual arousal in women?
(a) Closed eyes.
(b) It varies individual to individual.
(c) Lack of focus.
(d) Dilated eyes.

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

3. What does Eagleman say about the ways to measure how our unconscious minds affect our conscious thinking?
(a) Eagleman says he will not go into that idea.
(b) It is a hit and miss sort of thing.
(c) There are ways of measuring without even knowing one is doing so.
(d) It is impossible to measure such a thing.

4. What are our brains wired to do as far as complicated tasks are concerned?
(a) To consciously send the task to the unconscious mind to learn and then teach the conscious mind.
(b) Let the unconscious mind perform the task.
(c) To take the task apart and consciously learn it in steps.
(d) Study the task carefully and then consciously decide which part of the brain would be best to perform the task.

5. How does the author refer to the brain?
(a) As the guts of the individual life.
(b) As the mission control center.
(c) As the organ that works in tandem with the heart.
(d) As five pounds of power.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when one's brain changes?

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

3. To what are innumerable facets of ourselves linked?

4. What is meant by "implicit egotism"?

5. To what does Eagleman compare consciousness?

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