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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the amount of brain effort that vision uses indicate about vision?
(a) Vision is an extremely complex process.
(b) Vision is a very simple process of mirrors and reflections.
(c) The brain is so capable, it doesn't take much of it for any sensory input.
(d) It can take place while easily freeing the brain for other matters.

2. How do sorters learn to do their job?
(a) By studying videos of how to sort.
(b) By reading a how-to book.
(c) By watching experts sort.
(d) By an expert sorter correcting a novice.

3. What would happen if the people actually performed this motion in reality?
(a) The car would flip over.
(b) The square would be a rectangle.
(c) The car would go off the road.
(d) The circle would most likely turn out to be more elliptical.

4. What is another type of brain cell?
(a) Neutrophils.
(b) Leukocytes.
(c) Glia.
(d) Nephrons.

5. What does Eagleman say is the correct way to do this motion?
(a) Use a reference point to scribe the circle.
(b) Move first clockwise, then counterclockwise.
(c) Steer to the left, then straighten the wheel, then turn to the right.
(d) Steer to the right, then straighten the wheel, then turn to the left.

6. Who cannot immediately discern depth and movement as someone who has had vision since birth?
(a) Everyone who is sighted can immediately discern depth and movement.
(b) Someone who closes the eyes for more than a few seconds and then opens them.
(c) Someone who has cataracts removed.
(d) Blind people who recover their sight.

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

8. What happens to May after some time of having his sight back?
(a) He learns to interpret the world around him except for objects in the distance.
(b) He makes sense of the world in a different way than lifelong sighted people.
(c) He never really adjusts and went to wearing a mask over his eyes.
(d) He learns to make sense of the visual world.

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

10. What are our brains wired to do as far as complicated tasks are concerned?
(a) Study the task carefully and then consciously decide which part of the brain would be best to perform the task.
(b) Let the unconscious mind perform the task.
(c) To consciously send the task to the unconscious mind to learn and then teach the conscious mind.
(d) To take the task apart and consciously learn it in steps.

11. What does each brain cell send to other cells?
(a) Electrical impulses.
(b) Food.
(c) Messages for interpretation.
(d) Oxygen.

12. By what are thoughts underpinned?
(a) Fluids.
(b) Sound.
(c) Electrical waves.
(d) Physical stuff.

13. What does Eagleman say has happened to complicated processes in his analogy of consciousness?
(a) They have been jumbled into split images.
(b) The processes have been compressed into headlines.
(c) They have been compressed from novels to short stores.
(d) They have been compressed to dots.

14. What is the consistency of the brain?
(a) Peanut butter.
(b) Milk.
(c) Jello.
(d) Bread.

15. To what are innumerable facets of ourselves linked?
(a) The limbic system.
(b) The nervous system.
(c) The circulatory system.
(d) The heart and brain.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Eagleman compare consciousness?

2. What does Eagleman say about the ability to sort?

3. How does one device "show" a blind person his/her proximity to objects?

4. When does Arthur Alberts travel from New York to Africa?

5. How far in the past do we actually "live"?

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