Logical Reasoning

PT138 · S2 · Q15 Psychologists recently conducted

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Psychologists recently conducted a study in which people from widely disparate cultures were asked to examine five photographs.

Evidence

Psychologists recently WDC conducted a study in which people from widely disparate cultures were asked to examine five photographs.

Each photograph depicted the face of a person expressing one offive basic human emotions—fear, happiness, disgust, anger, and sadness.

The people in the study were asked to identify the emotion being expressed in each photograph.

For each photograph, SE everyone identified the same emotion.

Conclusion

This shows that people GP are genetically predisposed to associate certain facial expressions with certain basic emotions.

Evaluate

The argument assumes that genetic predisposition is the explanation for the common behavior, when in fact it could be that all cultures share some common cultural influences.

15.

Which one of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?

  1. For each photograph, the emotion

    Out of Scope

    The emotion felt by the person being photographed is not relevant since the person observing the photograph could only ascertain the emotion being expressed. This answer has more to do with whether the emotion being expressed was genuine, which is not relevant to the argument.

    11% picked this

  2. One's emotional disposition is not

    Too Strong

    This would include the expression of other emotions beyond the five basic ones included in the study.

    17% picked this

  3. Some behaviors that are present

    Weakens

    This weakens the argument by providing an alternative explanation to the one reached in the argument.

    2% picked this

  4. Correct

    If there is a behavior

    Why this is right

    This links the evidence WDC + SE ? GP to the conclusion with an “if/then” relationship.

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

    65% picked this

  5. The people whose faces were

    Too Strong

    Even if the people depicted in the photographs were all from the same culture, the fact remains that for each emotion it was recognized by people from widely disparate cultures in the same way.

    5% picked this

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