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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 do sorters learn to do their job?
(a) By watching experts sort.
(b) By reading a how-to book.
(c) By studying videos of how to sort.
(d) By an expert sorter correcting a novice.

2. What would happen if the people actually performed this motion in reality?
(a) The circle would most likely turn out to be more elliptical.
(b) The car would flip over.
(c) The square would be a rectangle.
(d) The car would go off the road.

3. What does the amount of brain effort that vision uses indicate about vision?
(a) It can take place while easily freeing the brain for other matters.
(b) Vision is a very simple process of mirrors and reflections.
(c) Vision is an extremely complex process.
(d) The brain is so capable, it doesn't take much of it for any sensory input.

4. What does an experiment that has people associate words such as "like" or "dislike" measure?
(a) Preferences for certain cars.
(b) Prejudicial feelings about people from certain countries.
(c) Preferences for certain flavors of ice cream
(d) Prejudicial feelings about different reaces.

5. What tells us that we experience the world as it actually exists?
(a) Our intuition.
(b) Our previous experiences.
(c) Our senses.
(d) Our knowledge.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author refer to the brain?

2. What does Alberts record?

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

4. How does Alberts convince one African that the native's tongue is still intact?

5. How much of our brain is devoted to sight?

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