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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6 Why Blameworthiness Is the Wrong Question.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is what a person likes determined?
(a) By careful consideration of the conscious mind with input from the unconscious mind.
(b) Largely by conscious thinking.
(c) Largely by unconscious thinking.
(d) There is no way to know that.

2. Who is one person the author mentions as understanding the arrangement between the conscious and unconscious mind?
(a) Ericksson.
(b) Johnson.
(c) Freud.
(d) Jung.

3. What did an autopsy of Whitman find?
(a) He was drunk when he died.
(b) He was severely abused as a child.
(c) He had a brain tumor.
(d) He was on ten different types of medicins.

4. How does the author describe parts of the brain?
(a) As discrete units that can be individually programmed.
(b) As independent of each other.
(c) As self-configuring.
(d) As radically different one from the other.

5. What is hard wired into our brains?
(a) Only the survival instinct.
(b) Nothing is actually hard wired into our brains.
(c) Things such as breathing and digestion.
(d) Much of what motivates us and drives our behavior.

Short Answer Questions

1. What assumption is at the core of the American legal system?

2. Whose brains must learn to make sense of visual input coming in?

3. To what does the author compare a single brain cell in its complexity?

4. What does the nature of the debate about the drunken actor illustrate according to Eagleman?

5. What does the author say lies underneath one's exterior looks?

(see the answer key)

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