PT143.S3.Q16

PrepTest 143 - Section 3 - Question 16

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Theorist: Support To be capable of planned locomotion, an organism must be able both to form an internal representation of its environment and to send messages to its muscles to control movements. ████ ██ ████████ ████ █████████ ████ █ ███████ ███████ ███████ █████ ██ ████████ █████████ ██ ███████ ██████████ ████ ███ ████ █ ███████ ███████ ███████

Summarize Argument

The author concludes that an organism incapable of planned locomotion does not have a central nervous system. This is based on the fact that, in order to be capable of planned locomotion, an organism must have a central nervous system.

Identify and Describe Flaw

The author confuses a sufficient condition for having a central nervous system (capable of planned locomotion) with a necessary condition. This overlooks the possibility that organisms that can’t do planned locomotion can still have a central nervous system. (Note that this can also be described as confusing a necessary condition with a sufficient condition.)

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16.

The theorist's argument is flawed ██ ████ ██

a

confuses a necessary █████████ ███ ██ ██████████ ██████████ █ ████████ ████ █ ██████████ ███

b

takes for granted ████ █████████ ███████ ██ ███████ ████████ ████ █████ ███████ ███████ ███████ ██ █████ ███████ ███ ████ ███████ ██ ██████████

c

presumes, without providing ██████████████ ████ ███████ ██████████ ██ ███ ████ ████████████ ██████ ███████ ███ ██ ██████████ ███████ ██ ████████ ██████████████ ██ ███ ███████████

d

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e

presumes, without providing ██████████████ ████ ██ ████████ ██████████████ ██ ███ ███████████ ███ ██ ██████ ██ ██ ████████ ████ ████ █ ███████████ ███████ ██████

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