Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

David Eagleman
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 156 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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 were men asked to rate in an experiment the author cites?
(a) How attractive they found women's faces in photographs they are shown.
(b) How easy it is to solve a given problem.
(c) The ease at remembering names.
(d) The ease at drawing a simple picture they are shown.

4. What does Eagleman say about implicit egotism?
(a) It is impossible to know how much of the egotism is conscious or unconscious.
(b) It is a well-established phenomenon.
(c) It is merely a theory that is impossible to prove.
(d) It is can wreck havoc on experiments with the unconscious mind.

5. What does Eagleman claim most people possess?
(a) A natural tendency to like others.
(b) A natural tendency to like ourselves.
(c) A natural tendency to dislike ourselves.
(d) A natural tendency to dislike ourselves.

6. When an action becomes automatic, what part of the brain is controlling it?
(a) It depends upon what the action entails.
(b) The conscious mind.
(c) The unconscious mind.
(d) The superconscious mind.

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

8. What do dilated eyes have to do with the experiment the author mentions?
(a) The men were more attracted to women with dilated eyes.
(b) It is a measure of the light used.
(c) It is a way to tell if the participant is looking directly at the computer screen.
(d) Dilated eyes have nothing to do with the experiment.

9. How do hallways challenge May when he regains his sight?
(a) The apparent convergence of the walls in the distance confuses him.
(b) The way the floor and walls meet at angles is upsets his sense of balance.
(c) They are no challenge since he remembers how to interpret them from when he used to see.
(d) The feeling of confinement with the walls so close bothers him.

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

11. What does each human brain cell contain in its entirety?
(a) A way to manufacture food.
(b) The human genome.
(c) A way to process information.
(d) A way to produce energy.

12. What tells us that we experience the world as it actually exists?
(a) Our senses.
(b) Our previous experiences.
(c) Our intuition.
(d) Our knowledge.

13. What does the author call self-healing material?
(a) Internal organs.
(b) The skin.
(c) Bones.
(d) The brain.

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

15. What does Alberts record?
(a) The sounds of the insect world of Africa.
(b) The sounds of many bird species.
(c) The sounds of the lions.
(d) African music.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the point of the exercise Eagleman has readers perform?

2. How much of our brain is devoted to sight?

3. Why does Alberts take along a tape recorder on his journey?

4. To what does Eagleman compare consciousness?

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

(see the answer keys)

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