Chapter 7 quiz

What kind of analysis explains how to do something or how to make something?

What kind of analysis explains how something is done or how it takes place?

In Section II of Chapter Seven of The Shallows, Carr describes an experiment that he says “actually showed people’s brains changing in response to Internet use” (121). List the steps in the process of conducting this experiment.

Carr further explains in Section II of Chapter Seven, “the extensive activity in the brains of surfers also points to why deep reading and other acts of sustained concentration become so difficult online” (122). What is the process described in paragraph five of Section II that makes sustained concentration while surfing the Internet so difficult? 

Steven Johnson, author of Everything Bad Is Good for You, says book reading “understimulates the senses” (123). Carr agrees with this observation. Does he deem this a positive or negative consequence of book reading? What specifically does he say is positive or negative about understimulation?

Copy the sentence that contains a metaphor in paragraph eight of Section II. 

Explain the way Carr uses the analogy of filling a bathtub with a thimble. What process is he describing with this analogy?

People who read linear text comprehend more, remember more, and learn more than those who read text peppered with links.

Briefly describe the four experiments in Section III used as examples of the way reading text with hyperlinks affects cognition.

Follow your own intellectual curiosity to discover a topic for your process analysis essay. This can be anything mentioned in chapter seven or anything inspired by something mentioned in the chapter. List three possible topics you would like to write about for the upcoming process analysis assignment.