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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. Whose brains must learn to make sense of visual input coming in?
(a) People who start wearing glasses.
(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) Blind people who recover their sight.

2. What do dilated eyes have to do with the experiment the author mentions?
(a) It is a measure of the light used.
(b) The men were more attracted to women with dilated eyes.
(c) Dilated eyes have nothing to do with the experiment.
(d) It is a way to tell if the participant is looking directly at the computer screen.

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

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

5. What do our conscious minds remain unaware of in the analogy Eagleman offers?
(a) The way the images fit together.
(b) The full story.
(c) The way the images are recorded as fact but much more exists that the video camera does not capture.
(d) The way the images are bounced through the mind like light in a camera.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To what are innumerable facets of ourselves linked?

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

4. When does the conscious mind actively train the unconscious mind?

5. What does each human brain cell contain in its entirety?

(see the answer key)

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