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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the novice sorter eventually do in order to become an expert sorter?
2. What would happen if the people actually performed this motion in reality?
3. How far in the past do we actually "live"?
4. At what age does Mike May regain his vision?
5. At what age does Mike May lose his vision?
Short Essay Questions
1. What has given greater insight into the workings of the mind since Freud's time?
2. What does Eagleman say the experiment with the photographs of women illustrates?
3. What is the simple experiment Eagleman asks the reader to perform?
4. How does Eagleman offer an analogy of one's awareness to a newspaper headline?
5. Explain the example of the chicken sexers that Eagleman discusses.
6. What does Eagleman say Sigmund Freud understood?
7. What is the point of the experiment that Eagleman suggests the reader try?
8. What does Eagleman describe in the opening chapter?
9. What happens to a blind person who recovers his/her sight?
10. What is seeing and what is the most important aspect of seeing?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Eagleman dismisses the assumption that all people are equally equipped to make sound and rational decisions. We are all at the mercy of the unconscious workings of our minds, and our ultimate behavior is a result of the biological balance within our brain. As an example, he points out that the overwhelming number of criminals are male. This suggests that there is a genetic component to the balance among the various rival parts of the brain.
1. Do you think that all people are equally equipped to make sound and rational decisions? Why or why not? Use examples from your own life and Incognito to support your answer.
2. Do you believe you are at the mercy of your unconscious mind? Why or why not? Use examples from your own life and Incognito to support your answer.
3. What kinds of balance between emotional and rational thoughts and feelings do you encounter in your life? Does the rational or emotional part of your brain have more sway over you? Why? Use examples from your own life and Incognito to support your answer.
Essay Topic 2
Titles often play a vital role in making a person decide to read a particular book. Discuss the following:
1. Fully explain why you think Incognito is titled as such. Do you think it is the best title for the book? Why or why not? Can you think of a better title? Why would you choose it?
2. How important is a title in influencing you to consider reading a book? Explain your answer.
3. Do you think a title needs to have direct relevance to a book's content? Explain your answer.
4. Have you ever read a book that when you finished, you do not understand the relevance of the title? Does it discourage you from "trusting" that particular author again?
Essay Topic 3
Our intuition tells us that we experience the world as it actually exists, Eagleman explains in chapter two. But we are actually unaware of most of what is happening. We can move an arm and be aware that it has moved, but we are unconscious of the flurry of neural impulses that caused the arm to move. Eagleman proposes an analogy that consciousness is like a newspaper, where complicated processes have been compressed into headlines. We read these "headlines" with our conscious minds while remaining unaware of the full "story."
1. Why do you think our intuition tells us the world we experience actually exists? Use examples from your own life and Incognito to support your answer.
2. Thinking back to yesterday, discuss ideas, actions or thoughts of which you may not have been aware. Use examples from your own life and Incognito to support your answer.
3. Do you think humans need to be more aware of the "behind the scenes" of any behavior or action? Why or why not? Use examples from your own life and Incognito to support your answer.
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