PT126.S1.Q22

PrepTest 126 - Section 1 - Question 22

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Psychologist: It is well known that becoming angry often induces temporary incidents of high blood pressure. █ ██████ █████ ███████ ███████ ████████ ████ ██████ ███ ███ ██████ ███████ ███ █████████████ ████ ██████ ██ ████ ███████████ ████ █████ ████████ ████ ███ ██████ ███ ████ ████ ████████ ██████████████ ███████ ████ ███ ████████████████ ████ ████ █████ ████ ███████████ ████ █████ ████████ ███ ██████████ ██████ ██ ████ █████ ████████ ███ ██████ ████████ ████████ ████ █████ ███████ ███ ██████ ████ █████████████ ████████

Summarize Argument: Phenomenon-Hypothesis

The author hypothesizes that psychological factors can cause heart disease. This is based on a study showing that people who are easily angered are more likely to have permanently high blood pressure than people with more calm personalities, and the fact that people with permanently high blood pressure are likely to have heart disease.

Notable Assumptions

The author assumes that the correlation between being easily angered and likelihood of having permanently high blood pressure is due to anger causing the permanently high blood pressure or due to calmness causing lower blood pressure. This overlooks the possibility that high blood pressure could make one easy to anger, or that there’s an alternate cause that leads to both anger and high blood pressure. The author also assumes that high blood pressure causes heart disease.

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22.

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a

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b

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c

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d

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e

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