LSAT 120 – Section 4 – Question 06

LSAT 120 - Section 4 - Question 06

October 2005

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PT120 S4 Q06
+LR
+Exp
Argument part +AP
A
18%
158
B
0%
151
C
2%
155
D
4%
161
E
76%
162
125
142
159
 +Medium 146.628 +SubsectionMedium

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 it would seem that the meaning one attaches to a wound can affect the amount of pain one perceives.

Summarize Argument
Physiology is only part of pain perception. Why? The meaning one attaches to a wound can also affect pain perception. How do we know? A WWII study showed that civilians and soldiers attached different meanings to their pain, and civilians requested more pain medication.

Identify Argument Part
This is the conclusion of the argument. The study supports that there are psychological components to pain perception, which in turn supports that pain perception is only partly dependent on physiology.

A
It is an assumption on which the argument depends.
The claim is the argument - everything else supports it. It cannot be an assumption if it is the conclusion.
B
It undermines the argument’s main conclusion.
It does not undermine the conclusion - it is the conclusion. The rest of the stimulus is used to support the claim.
C
It summarizes a position that the argument is meant to discredit.
The argument is not discrediting this claim - it is supporting it. The rest of the stimulus acts as evidence.
D
It is information that the argument takes for granted.
The argument does not take this claim for granted - it supports it. There is evidence for why we should believe the claim.
E
It is the main conclusion of the argument.
This is accurate - it is the main argument in the stimulus. The rest of the argument acts as evidence to support it.

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