PT131.S2.Q13

PrepTest 131 - Section 2 - Question 13

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Bethany: Psychologists have discovered a technique for replacing one's nightmares with pleasant dreams, and have successfully taught it to adults suffering from chronic nightmares. ███████ ████ █████ ████ ███████████████ ████████ ███ ██████████ ██████ ██ ██████ ████ ██████████ ██ ███████ █████ █████████████ ██████ ██████ ███████ ██████ ███████████ ███████████████ ████████ ██ ████ █████ ████████ ███ ██ ██████ ███ █████████ ███ █████████ █████ ██████████ ████ ████████ ███████

Summary

Bethany concludes that psychologists should try to identify nightmare-prone children and teach them the effective new technique. Why? Because nightmare-prone children are likely to be nightmare-prone adults.

Notable Assumptions

Bethany concludes that psychologists should teach the technique to nightmare-prone children, but her premises never establish when psychologists should do something. She’s assuming that they should try to help children with their nightmares. Since nightmare-prone children are likely to become nightmare-prone adults, she may also assume that psychologists should help prevent people from becoming nightmare-prone adults.

We need a rule or principle that helps justify her conclusion by confirming that psychologists should indeed try to identify nightmare-prone children and teach them the technique.

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13.

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a

Psychologists should make ██ ██████ ██ █████████ ███ ███████ ████████ ███ ██████████ █████ ██ ██████████ █████ █████ ████████ ███ ████

b

Any psychological technique ████ ███ ██ ████████████ ██████ ██ █ █████ ███ ████ ██ ████████████ ██████ ██ ██ ██████

c

Psychologists should do ██████████ ████ ███ ██ ████████ ███ ██████ ██ ██████ ████████ ██ ███████ ███████████

d

Identifying nightmare-prone children ██ █████████ ████ █████████ ████ ████████ ██████ ███ █████████ ███ █████████ ██████████ ████ ████████ ███████

e

Psychologists should not █████ ███ █████████ ███ █████████ ██████████ ████ ████████ ██████ ██ ████████ ███ ███ ████████ ██ ██████ ████ ██████████ ██ ███████

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