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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. How does Eagleman compare the conscious mind to the senses in a human being?
(a) Neither have limits.
(b) Senses do not have limits but the conscious mind does.
(c) Senses have limits but the conscious mind does not.
(d) Both have limits.

2. What are two examples of optical illusions?
(a) Red looking black.
(b) A round circle looking elliptical.
(c) The apparent motion of stationary images and the apparent change in size of images when their backgrounds are changed.
(d) A square being a rectangle.

3. What were men then shown for a longer period of time?
(a) Colors splashed randomly on the paper.
(b) Pictures of cars with women beside them.
(c) The same pictures of the women.
(d) Pictures of abstract figures that resembled the female figure.

4. What does Eagleman say about people who marry that is related to the idea of implicit egotism?
(a) That one marries someone whose egotism reflects their own feelings about themselves.
(b) That people who possess little ego tend not to marry.
(c) That people who marry seem to suffer less from implicit egotism.
(d) That the number of people who marry people whose first names begin with the same letter as their own is statistically significant.

5. To what does the author compare a single brain cell in its complexity?
(a) A maze.
(b) A city.
(c) A village.
(d) A ball team.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alberts record?

2. What were men first shown briefly?

3. What does Eagleman say is the correct way to do this motion?

4. What tells us that we experience the world as it actually exists?

5. For what was the actor in #109 arrested in 2006?

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