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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Pages 45 - 88).
Multiple Choice Questions
1. 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.
2. What did a 2006 study by Jupiter Research reveal a huge overlap in, according to Carr in Chapter Five?
(a) TV viewing and Web surfing.
(b) Web surfing and eating.
(c) TV viewing and Smartphone use.
(d) Smartphone use and computer use.
3. How did the rise of silent reading change the architecture of libraries, according to Carr?
(a) Theaters were installed.
(b) Individual rooms with doors that could be closed were installed.
(c) Small, individual desks were installed.
(d) Private carrels and cloisters were torn out in favor of longer tables in open spaces where people could read silently side by side.
4. How did the map and clock change language indirectly, according to Carr?
(a) People started drawing clock hands on their books.
(b) People started using navigational terms for literature-related topics.
(c) People started reading maps much more than they read books.
(d) New metaphors based on the map and clock arose to describe natural phenomenon.
5. What does Hebb's rule say?
(a) Brain cells that can shift their function from one thing to another are called transformers.
(b) Brain cells that fire together wire together.
(c) Brain cells that do not ever change are called static.
(d) Brain cells that regenerate after injury are called super brain cells.
Short Answer Questions
1. When was the Apple Computer company incorporated?
2. What job did Johannes Gutenberg have before inventing the printing press?
3. What did the psychologist Vaughan Bell saw the ability to focus on a single task represents in the history of psychological development?
4. Carr writes that the computer is our servant, but it is simultaneously which of the following?
5. What kind of sea slugs did Eric Kandel perform experiments on in the early 1970s?
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