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Support People who have experienced a traumatic event but who did not subsequently develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) tend to produce higher levels of the hormone cortisol when exposed to stress than do people who have not experienced traumatic events. ████ ████████ ████ ████████████ █ █████████ █████ ███ ██████ ███ ████ ████████ ███ ████████ ██ ████████ ██ ███████
Summarize Argument: Phenomenon-Hypothesis
The author hypothesizes that experiencing a traumatic event can affect how much cortisol one produces in response to stress. This is based on the fact that people who have experienced a traumatic event but don’t develop PTSD tend to produce higher levels of cortisol in times of stress than do people who haven’t experienced traumatic events.
Notable Assumptions
The author assumes that people who have experienced traumatic events without developing PTSD are representative of people who have experienced traumatic events generally (i.e. including those who did develop PTSD) with respect to the amount of cortisol produced in times of stress. The author also assumes that there isn’t another explanation for the correlation observed between cortisol amounts produced and experiencing a traumatic event without PTSD.
Analysis by Kevin_Lin
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