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
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 156 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

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

5. 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) Blind people who recover their sight.
(c) Someone who has cataracts removed.
(d) Someone who closes the eyes for more than a few seconds and then opens them.

6. Why does Alberts take along a tape recorder on his journey?
(a) Because of his love of gadgetry.
(b) Because of his love of music.
(c) To tape his observations.
(d) To tape his last moments if he is dying.

7. How do the eyes of blind people who recover their sight work compared to persons who are sighted since birth?
(a) The formerly blind person's eyes often do not work in tandem.
(b) The eyes both work the same in both groups.
(c) The formerly blind person's eyes often only work in strong light.
(d) The person who is sighted from birth can see better in low light.

8. What do our conscious minds remain unaware of in the analogy Eagleman offers?
(a) The way the images are recorded as fact but much more exists that the video camera does not capture.
(b) The way the images fit together.
(c) The full story.
(d) The way the images are bounced through the mind like light in a camera.

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

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

11. How do photographs of different races reveal something about the mind?
(a) The conscious mind might be prejudice but most will not acknowledge their feelings.
(b) It demonstrates how sight affects conscious choices.
(c) Prejudice can be hidden in the unconscious.
(d) It shows how sight is both an unconscious and conscious action.

12. What does the author say lies underneath one's exterior looks?
(a) Sophisticated machinery.
(b) A simple network of interlocking pieces.
(c) A string of double helixes.
(d) A world of its own.

13. What does Eagleman say can happen even after we learn to see?
(a) Our vision can be fooled.
(b) Our sight can be inaccurate.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Our sight can be erratic.

14. What seems natural to most people?
(a) Processing physical data.
(b) Believing what we see is real.
(c) Thinking.
(d) Seeing.

15. How does the author refer to the brain?
(a) As five pounds of power.
(b) As the guts of the individual life.
(c) As the mission control center.
(d) As the organ that works in tandem with the heart.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would happen if the people actually performed this motion in reality?

2. What have we humans thrown ourselves into deciphering?

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

4. At what age does Mike May lose his vision?

5. Of what are we unconscious when we move an arm?

(see the answer keys)

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