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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7 Life After the Monarchy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About how many pounds does a brain weigh?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 6.

2. What does the amygdala regulate?
(a) Logical thought processes.
(b) Emotions such as love and joy.
(c) Breathing.
(d) Emotions such as aggression and fear.

3. What is one of the types of cells in the brain?
(a) Nephrons.
(b) Neurons.
(c) Hepatic.
(d) Erythrocytes.

4. How do some scientist define intelligence?
(a) The ability to mix emotion with thought.
(b) Many small actions that can be performed without conscious thinking coming together.
(c) The ability to make very fine distinctions.
(d) The ability to think more than a couple steps ahead of a task.

5. How complex is the human brain?
(a) No one knows.
(b) Fairly simple.
(c) Almost unfathomably complex.
(d) Parts are simple and parts are somewhat complex.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an animal's ability to choose a course from among competing options and act accordingly?

2. Why did the subjects say about why they chose the pictures of the women that they did?

3. What indicates a state of sexual arousal in women?

4. What does Eagleman say about the question as to whether the actor is racist or not?

5. What type of accident does Phineas Gage survive?

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