Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Medium

PT120 S4 Q6 Explanation

Pain perception depends only partly

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Stimulus

Pain perception depends only partly on physiology. During World War II a significantly lower percentage of injured soldiers requested morphine than did civilians recuperating from surgery. The soldier’s response to injury was relief, joy at being alive, even euphoria; to the civilians, surgery was a depressing, calamitous event. So a wound can affect the amount of pain one perceives.

What this question is testing

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Your task

Break the argument into its conclusion and evidence, then do exactly what the question stem asks with that structure.

Common trap

Answers that sound relevant to the topic but don't connect to the argument's actual reasoning.

Winning move

Predict what a right answer must do, then test each choice against the conclusion-evidence gap.

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The question
6.

The claim that pain perception depends only partly on physiology figures in the argument in which one of

Answer choices

  1. Trap18% picked this

    It is an assumption on which the

  2. Trap2% picked this

    It undermines the argument’s main

  3. Trap1% picked this

    It summarizes a position that the argument is meant

  4. Trap4% picked this

    It is information that the argument takes

  5. Correct75% picked this

    It is the main conclusion of

    Why this is right

    Answer E is correct.

    Skill tested: Role · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

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