Self-study
Psychiatrist: We are learning that neurochemical imbalances can cause behavior ranging from extreme mental illness to less serious but irritating behavior such as obsessive fantasizing, petulance, or embarrassment. █████ ████████ ████ ███████ ██████████ ███ █████████ ████ ███████ ██ █ ██████ ████████ ██████ ██ ████ ██████████ ███████ ███ ████████ █████ █████ ████████ ███████ ███ ███ █████ ██ ██ ████ ██ ██████ ██████ ███ ████ █████████████ ████████ ██ ████ ███████
Summarize Argument
The psychiatrist predicts that recent findings will encourage a more compassionate, tolerant view of mental illness and behavioral differences. Why the kinder view? Because the findings will allow people to perceive mentally healthy people as merely having balanced neurochemicals.
Identify Conclusion
The psychiatrist’s conclusion is his prediction: “These findings [about neurochemical balances being a cause of mental illness and other issues] will promote compassion and tolerance when looking at a mental illness, quirk, or mere difference between two persons.”
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Which one of the following ████ ██████████ █████████ ███ ██████████ ██ ███ ██████████████ █████████
a
Understanding the role ██ ███ █████████████ ██ ████████ ████ ██████ ███████ ██████ ███████
This paraphrases the psychiatrist’s conclusion: knowledge of how neurochemical imbalances can affect behavior will foster empathy, or “promote compassion and tolerance” toward those with mental health or behavioral issues.
b
Neurochemical imbalances can █████ ██████ ███████ ███ █████ ██████████
The psychiatrist uses this fact as context. His conclusion is that this fact will produce a certain effect: it will promote compassion and tolerance toward those with mental health or behavioral issues.
c
Neurochemical balances and ██████████ ███ ███ ████ ████████████ ██ ██████ █████████
The psychiatrist never suggests what the main determinants of mental behavior are. He only states that neurochemical balance is one potential determinant.
d
Being mentally healthy ██ █ ██████ ██ ██████ ███ ████ █████████████ ████████ ██ ████ ███████
The psychiatrist states that mental health can be viewed this way, but this forms his premise, not his conclusion. The fact that mental health can be seen in this light leads him to conclude that people will become more tolerant of mental health and behavioral issues.
e
Advances in neurochemistry ███████ ███ ████████ ██ ██████ ████████
The psychiatrist doesn’t reach any conclusions about theories of mental illness. He presents findings about a possible cause of mental illness, and concludes that those findings will affect people’s attitudes.