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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. What does Eagleman say about the ability to sort?
(a) It eventually becomes automatic and becomes an unconscious process.
(b) It is related to the ability to reason abstractly.
(c) It is related to the ability to draw.
(d) You either have the ability at the very beginning or you can never learn it.

2. What does Eagleman say seeing is?
(a) An ability that is easy to mimic with computers.
(b) A complex series of lower and higher mental processes.
(c) An overrated skill.
(d) A skill that will someday be obsolete.

3. How does Eagleman compare thinking with seeing?
(a) Both involve the right brain.
(b) Neither are infallible.
(c) Both involve the same area of the left brain.
(d) There are thoughts that we cannot think, just as there are wavelengths of light we cannot see.

4. What were men asked to rate in an experiment the author cites?
(a) The ease at remembering names.
(b) How easy it is to solve a given problem.
(c) How attractive they found women's faces in photographs they are shown.
(d) The ease at drawing a simple picture they are shown.

5. What is meant by "implicit egotism"?
(a) The tendency for the ego to determine prejudice.
(b) The way the ego receives implied beliefs from the unconscious.
(c) The tendency for most people to like themselves.
(d) The belief in psychology that the ego is not real.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the most important part of seeing?

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

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

4. How does Eagleman then change the puzzle?

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

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