PT126.S4.Q2

PrepTest 126 - Section 4 - Question 2

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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 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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2.

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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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