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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Charles Whitman?
(a) A small-time criminal.
(b) A Professor at University of San Francisco.
(c) A mass murderer.
(d) A cook at University of Texas.

2. What did an autopsy of Whitman find?
(a) He was on ten different types of medicins.
(b) He was severely abused as a child.
(c) He had a brain tumor.
(d) He was drunk when he died.

3. What does Eagleman think is a good model for how the brain works?
(a) A theory called science of mentality.
(b) A concept call indiscriminate separation.
(c) A concept called society of mind.
(d) A theory called particulate mentality.

4. What does Eagleman say the majority of criminals are?
(a) Male.
(b) Helpless victims of their brain chemistry.
(c) Unbalanced in their psychological state.
(d) Female.

5. What was winning the battle for control of Whitman's behavior in Eagleman's analogy?
(a) Logic versus emotions.
(b) Religion versus science.
(c) Love versus hate.
(d) Whitman's aggressive zombie programs.

6. What is the significant fact in the two showings to the men?
(a) The men invariably chose the same in either situation.
(b) The men seemed to randomly choose preferences no matter the amount of time exposed to the images.
(c) It has little to do with appearance, but more to do with the time they had to look at the pictures.
(d) The men invariably chose differently in each situation.

7. How does Eagleman compare thinking with seeing?
(a) Neither are infallible.
(b) Both involve the same area of the left brain.
(c) There are thoughts that we cannot think, just as there are wavelengths of light we cannot see.
(d) Both involve the right brain.

8. What is hard wired into our brains?
(a) Only the survival instinct.
(b) Things such as breathing and digestion.
(c) Much of what motivates us and drives our behavior.
(d) Nothing is actually hard wired into our brains.

9. What disease does Eagleman mention in support of his argument about free will?
(a) OCD.
(b) Autism.
(c) Schizophrenia.
(d) Tourette's Syndrome.

10. What question does Eagleman pose about the actor?
(a) If the actor learned his bigotry from society in general.
(b) Which is the real man--the bigot or the one who seems sorry for his actions.
(c) How much of the actor's life was impacted by the incident.
(d) If the actor learned his bigotry as a child.

11. Where does the incident take place that Eagleman describe from 1966?
(a) Dallas.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) Austin.
(d) Orlando.

12. How does Eagleman explain the phenomenon as to how men made their choices in the experiment?
(a) The cars that men chose were the ones that had the most attractive women standing by them.
(b) Men are attracted to women who have the same ethnic looks as themselves.
(c) It goes back to the early history of humankind.
(d) It is socially ingrained from advertisements.

13. What can insects do that human beings cannot do?
(a) Insects can see wavelengths we cannot see.
(b) They can hear light as well as see it.
(c) They can see both sound and light.
(d) They can see the entire spectrum of light.

14. What does Chapter 4 explore?
(a) How the conscious and unconscious minds can be complementary.
(b) The limits to our conscious thinking.
(c) The ways our conscious thinking get us in trouble.
(d) The limits to our unconscious thinking.

15. What does Eagleman say a man named Alex started demonstrating?
(a) A significant change in his television habits.
(b) An unusual musical talent.
(c) A significant change in his sexual preferences.
(d) An unusual mathematical talent.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Eagleton support his statement about what is or is not hard wired into our brains?

2. What proved difficult in programming robots?

3. What is the orbitofrontal cortex?

4. What do we perceive about the limits of our conscious knowledge?

5. At what do babies tend to look?

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