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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 The Brain Is a Team of Rivals.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does the conscious mind actively train the unconscious mind?
(a) When the unconscious mind shows signs of dysfunction.
(b) When the conscious mind shows signs of dysfunction.
(c) When there is a repetitive task to learn that the unconscious can do efficently.
(d) When there is a complicated task to learn.

2. What was one routine in charge of?
(a) Writing down each degree of latitude.
(b) Recording moisture readings.
(c) Spotting the numbers.
(d) Finding the block.

3. What is an animal's ability to choose a course from among competing options and act accordingly?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) Consciousness.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Awareness.

4. When an action becomes automatic, what part of the brain is controlling it?
(a) The conscious mind.
(b) The superconscious mind.
(c) It depends upon what the action entails.
(d) The unconscious mind.

5. What have we humans thrown ourselves into deciphering?
(a) Our emotional world.
(b) Our means of connecting the brain to the heart.
(c) Our own programming language.
(d) The language of individual, specialized cells.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what is the phenomenon of depth being stimulated on a flat page an example?

2. What does Eagleman say we cannot think?

3. How does the author describe parts of the brain?

4. What is something the brain has to learn?

5. What is the significant fact in the two showings to the men?

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