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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. What had people noticed about Whitman in some months before his death?
(a) He seemed to feel much despair.
(b) His behavior had changed.
(c) He seemed full of hope.
(d) He seemed the same as always.

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

3. What happens when one's brain changes?
(a) The person is no longer functional.
(b) The person can become a genius.
(c) The person cannot change.
(d) The person changes.

4. 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.

5. What is something the brain has to learn?
(a) Seeing.
(b) Moving electrical impulses.
(c) Thinking.
(d) Making contacts among synapses.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Eagleman say about the ways to measure how our unconscious minds affect our conscious thinking?

3. What studies does Eagleman look at in this chapter?

4. Who cannot immediately discern depth and movement as someone who has had vision since birth?

5. What are two competing aspects of the brain which Eagleman mentions?

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