HOW YOUR MIND MAKES REALITY

Which of the options below is true, according to the presentation in this class?

• Our senses are able to capture reality as it is by sending signals to our brain.

• Our senses work together with our brain to capture reality as it is.

• Our senses work together with our brain to reconstruct reality, and in that process, distortions will eventually happen.

• The reality that exists in the world has very little to do with the one we experience with our senses.

When asked to assess the quality of a ______________, most people considered the blue and yellow one to be better than the others, even though they were all the same. That means that the packaging of a product has a lot of impact on how we evaluate it.

What is the Pepsi Paradox?

• In blind taste tests, most people prefer Pepsi, but when people knew what they were drinking, they preferred Coke.

• In blind taste tests, most people prefer Coke, but when people knew what they were drinking, they preferred Pepsi.

• People think that they know the difference between Pepsi and Coke, but in blind taste tests, they get confused.

According to the presentation, the colors you see on this dress...

• are black and blue

• are gold and white

• depend on how you (unconsciously) assume it is illuminated.

Which of the options below is not true about our sense of vision?

• We see upside down when we are born. Later, our brain learns to flip the image.

• Without the editing out done by our brains, what we actually see would be blurred and unwatchable.

• We don't see our noses because they are outside our field of vision.

• We don't see a blind spot in our eyes because the brain covers that area with information from the surrounding area.

How long did it take him to relearn to ride a regular bike after riding the inverted bike for a long time?

• Six months

• Three weeks

• Two days

• Twenty minutes

According to Kant, we can never know 'the thing in itself'.

• True

• False

When you are totally concentrated on something, such as doing a test, your brain is working about _____% harder than when you are resting.

• 10%

• 25%

• 50%

• 1%

If you could see the image coming from your eyes without any processing from the brain, the final result would be ____________.

• Colorless

• a little blurry

• unwatchable

• upside down and incomplete

_________ is the tendency to perceive a specific, often meaningful image in a random or ambiguous visual pattern.