Self-study
It is well documented that people have positive responses to some words, such as "kind" and "wonderful," and negative responses to others, such as "evil" and "nausea." Recently, psychological experiments have revealed that Support people also have positive or negative responses to many nonsense words. ████ █████ ████ ████████ █████████ ██ █████ ███ ███████████ ███ ████ ██ ████ ███ █████ █████ ███ ████ ██ ███ ████ ██████
Summarize Argument
People’s responses to words are impacted not only by meaning, but also by how they sound. We know this because experiments demonstrated that people have positive and negative reactions to nonsense words.
Identify Argument Part
This is the evidence that supports the conclusion. This study allows the author to claim that responses to words are not just meaning dependent (because nonsense words have no meaning) but also based on how those words sound.
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This is not an accurate representation of the conclusion. The conclusion says the response is impacted by sound, not that people will have these responses to any given word.
b
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It is a premise. It provides evidence for the claim in this answer choice, which is the real conclusion.
c
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This is evidence, not a supported generalization. It is not supported by the first claim, which is a separate observation.
d
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This is evidence that supports the conclusion explaining the multiple ways people’s responses to words are conditioned.
e
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It is a premise. The claim in this answer choice is not contained in the stimulus.