View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Pages 45 - 88).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of sea slugs did Eric Kandel perform experiments on in the early 1970s?
(a) Golangels.
(b) Aplysia.
(c) Prickly slugs.
(d) Cucumbers.

2. How does the brain's ability to adapt to changes shift as people age?
(a) The brain needs medication to be able to change as people age.
(b) The brain becomes less able to change as quickly as people age.
(c) The brain requires surgery to be able to change as people age.
(d) The brain becomes more able to change as people age.

3. In what year was the book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man published?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1964.
(d) 1984.

4. About how much did Carr spend on his first real computer purchase in 1986?
(a) $2,000.
(b) $5,000.
(c) $10,000.
(d) $500.

5. What did the psychologist Vaughan Bell saw the ability to focus on a single task represents in the history of psychological development?
(a) A strange anomaly.
(b) A hindrance in human survival rates.
(c) A natural step in human history.
(d) A progressive lead forward.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Three, what does Carr posit is one way to trace the intellectual maturation of individuals?

2. Who was one of the first biologists to argue that the human brain might be in a constant state of flux?

3. What do instrumentalists believe, according to Carr?

4. Who was the inventor of the typewriter?

5. Who was one of the inventors of BASIC, the first programming language to use common words and syntax?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 319 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample