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Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain Quiz

David Eagleman

This Study Guide consists of approximately 28 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Incognito.

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman

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+Chapters Summary and Analysis

Chapter 1 There's Someone In My Head, But It's Not Me

Chapter 2 The Testimony of the Senses: What Is Experience Really Like?

Chapter 3 Mind: The Gap

Chapter 4 The Kinds of Thoughts That Are Thinkable

Chapter 5 The Brain Is a Team of Rivals

Chapter 6 Why Blameworthiness Is the Wrong Question

Chapter 7 Life After the Monarchy

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

What would happen if the people actually performed this motion in reality? (from Chapter 3 Mind: The Gap)

The car would flip over.

The circle would most likely turn out to be more elliptical.

The car would go off the road.

The square would be a rectangle.

2.

What does the novice sorter eventually do in order to become an expert sorter? (from Chapter 3 Mind: The Gap)

Intuit the difference with their minds.

Feel the difference in feather softness.

Internalize the task.

Close their eyes and hear the difference.

3.

What does Eagleman say the dethronements about our conscious mind should do? (from Chapter 7 Life After the Monarchy)

Change psychotherapy.

Give us hope that we can fix crminals.

Change the legal system.

Encourage us to explore ourselves at a new level.

4.

What are our brains wired to do as far as complicated tasks are concerned? (from Chapter 3 Mind: The Gap)

To consciously send the task to the unconscious mind to learn and then teach the conscious mind.

To take the task apart and consciously learn it in steps.

Let the unconscious mind perform the task.

Study the task carefully and then consciously decide which part of the brain would be best to perform the task.

5.

How do some scientist define intelligence? (from Chapter 5 The Brain Is a Team of Rivals)

The ability to mix emotion with thought.

The ability to make very fine distinctions.

The ability to think more than a couple steps ahead of a task.

Many small actions that can be performed without conscious thinking coming together.

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