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NEW QUESTION 206
When hypnotized subjects are told that they are deaf and are then asked whether they can hear the hypnotist, they reply, "No." Some theorists try to explain this result by arguing that the selves of hypnotized subjects are dissociated into separate parts, and that the part that is deaf is dissociated from the part that replies.
Which of the following challenges indicates the most serious weakness in the attempted explanation described above?
- A. Why do hypnotized subjects all respond the same way in the situation described?
- B. Why do the subjects appear to accept the hypnotist's suggestion that they are deaf?
- C. Why does the part that replies not answer, "Yes"?
- D. Why are the separate parts of the self the same for all subjects?
- E. Why are the observed facts in need of any special explanation?
Answer: C
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NEW QUESTION 207
Politician: Fewer people are entering the labor market now than previously. If the economy grows, the demand for motivated and educated people will far outstrip the supply. Some companies have already started to respond to this labor-market situation by finding better ways to keep their current employees.
Their concern is a sure indicator that the economy is growing.
Which of the following is the best criticism of the politician's reasoning?
- A. The fact that the number of new entrants into the labor market is declining does not mean that the number of new entrants is lower than it has ever been.
- B. The fact that current employees have become more valuable to some companies does not mean that those employees will do their jobs better than they used to.
- C. The fact that demand will outstrip supply does not mean that there will be no supply at all.
- D. The fact that some companies now try harder to keep their employees does not mean that they used to be indifferent to employee morale.
- E. The fact that companies are making prudent preparations for a possible future development does not mean that this development is already taking place.
Answer: E
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NEW QUESTION 208
A rectangular picture frame is hanging flat against a vertical wall so that the two longer sides of the frame are parallel to the horizontal floor. The highest points on the frame are 2.5 meters above the floor, and the lowest points on the frame are 1.25 meters above the floor. What is the length, in meters, of each of the frame's longer sides?
(1) The ratio of the length of the frame's longer sides to the length of the frame's shorter sides is 8:5.
(2) The total area of the region within the outside edges of the frame Is 2.5 square meters.
- A. Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient.
- B. BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient.
- C. Statement (2) ALONE Is sufficient, but statement (1) atone is not sufficient.
- D. Statement (1) ALONE Is sufficient, but statement (2) alone is not sufficient.
- E. EACH statement ALONE is sufficient.
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 209
Manufacturers and retailers tend to look askance at gray markets, where products are sold at cut-rate prices outside their authorized distribution channels. Manufacturers fear that gray markets will undercut margins and tarnish brand names. Retailers fear that they will siphon away customers and erode prices.
A new study indicates, however, that gray marketing actually benefits manufacturers and retailers in markets that meet two criteria: first, sharp differences exist in consumers' price sensitivity; second, large numbers of consumers are price-insensitive. In such markets, the low prices of the gray market will attract the most price-sensitive customers. The authorized channels will then compete only for the remaining customers-those who are insensitive to price but sensitive to service.
When that happens, the structure of competition and the economics of the market shift. The authorized retailers, freed from having to cater to the bargain hunters, can raise their prices and focus on service. If the concentration of price-insensitive shoppers is high enough, the resulting increase in prices will more than offset the loss of sales to the bargain hunters. The margins and profits of the authorized retailers will increase, and manufacturers will, as a result, be able to boost their wholesale prices.
The Sanpoil, a Native American tribe of the central Plateau west of the Rocky Mountains, sought peace constantly, and not only avoided war and feuds with neighboring peoples and among one another, but also they refused to retaliate if attacked.
- A. not only avoiding war and feuds with neighboring peoples and one another, but also refusing
- B. and not only avoided war and feuds among neighboring peoples and one another, but also refused
- C. and not only avoided war and feuds with neighboring peoples and among one another, but also they refused
- D. not only to avoid war and feuds with neighboring peoples and one another, but also refusing
- E. not only avoiding war and feuds among neighboring peoples and one another, but also refusing
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 210
Intuitively, intellectual skills and perceptual-motor skills seem very different because perceptual-motor skills appear more primitive. Ontogenetically, perceptual-motor skills develop before intellectual skills, or at least before most intellectual skills are manifested. Phylogenetically, creatures "high on the evolutionary ladder" are more obviously capable of intellectual skills than are creatures "lower down ".
Perceptual-motor skills also seem more closely tied to specific forms of expression. Being a chess player does not mean one can only play with pieces of a certain size, that one can only move pieces with one's right hand, and so on. By contrast, being a violinist means one can play an instrument whose size occupies a fairly narrow range and that one must play with a rather rigid assignment of functions to effectors (bowing with the right hand, and fingering with the left). The seeming narrowness of this perceptual-motor skill expression, contrasted with the seeming openness of intellectual skill expression, seems to follow from intellectual skills having symbolic outcomes and perceptual-motor skills having non- symbolic outcomes. Symbolic outcomes need not be realized in specific ways and can rely on abstract rules. Non-symbolic outcomes, by contrast, need more specific forms of realization and seem to depend on restricted associations between stimuli and response.
Another difference between intellectual and perceptual-motor skills is that the two kinds of skill seem to be represented in different parts of the brain. For example, structures homologous to the optic tectum, a nucleus located on the dorsal surface of the midbrain, have a common function in all vertebrates- coordinating visual, auditory, and somatosensory information relevant to the control of orienting movements of the eyes, ears, and head. Similarities in structure and function between these and other brain areas associated with perceptual-motor behavior suggest that mechanisms for control of perceptual- motor skills are both highly specialized and conserved across species. In contrast, what distinguishes the human brain from the brains of other species - even closely related ones - is the differential growth of brain regions most strongly associated with intellectual skills, such as the association areas of the cerebral cortex.
The contention that these areas serve intellectual functions is supported by a large body of clinical and experimental literature. Together, these diverse sources of information suggest that perceptual-motor and intellectual skills depend on distinct brain circuits.
The author mentions the game of chess in paragraph two primarily in order to
- A. Present an example of a perceptual-motor skill the mastery of which is not closely tied to specific forms of expression.
- B. Present an example of a perceptual-motor skill the mastery of which is closely tied to specific forms of expression.
- C. Present an example of an intellectual skill the mastery of which is not closely tied to specific forms of expression.
- D. Present an example of a skill that is both an intellectual skill and a perceptual-motor skill, the mastery of which is closely tied to specific forms of expression.
- E. Present an example of an intellectual skill the mastery of which is closely tied to specific forms of expression.
Answer: C
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The best answer is A.
Chess is an intellectual skill the mastery of which is not closely tied to specific forms of expression. In other words, once one has learned to play the game, one can vary the way one plays, by using one's left hand instead of one's right, for instance.
NEW QUESTION 211
Art expert: If a painting is from the Hudson River School of the mid-nineteenth century United States, it will display a romantic reverence for landscape, portraying pastoral scenes in which humans and nature coexist peacefully. The painting that was recently discovered in the attic of the old town hall dates from the 1850s and portrays a pastoral landscape in which two couples are having a peaceful picnic. So the painting must be from the Hudson River School.
The critic's argument is flawed in that it
- A. mistakenly treats a class of things with certain properties as the only kind of things with those properties
- B. improperly assumes that because something has a particular property, the parts of that thing will also have the property
- C. states a generalization based on an inadequate piece of evidence
- D. depends on a premise that the argument suggests is false
- E. fails to recognize that a particular term can have more than one meaning
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 212
According to a review of 38 studies of patients suffering from water retention, a large majority of the patients reported that fasting eased their suffering considerably. Yet fasting is not used to treat water retention even though the conventional medications often have serious side effects.
Which of the following, if true, best explains the fact that fasting is not used as a treatment for water retention?
- A. The water retention returns in full force as soon as the fast is broken by even a small meal.
- B. The dramatic shifts in water retention connected with fasting have not been traced to particular changes in brain chemistry.
- C. Getting patients with water retention to fast regularly is more difficult than getting healthy patients to do so.
- D. For a small percentage of patients with water retention, fasting induces a temporary sense of nausea
- E. Fasting regularly over a long period of time can lead to temporary impairment of balance comparable to that induced by consuming several ounces of alcohol.
Answer: D
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In choice A, the words object and necessity, both singular, agree.
NEW QUESTION 213 
- A. Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient.
- B. Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) alone is not sufficient.
- C. BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient.
- D. Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) alone is not sufficient.
- E. EACH statement ALONE is sufficient.
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 214
Wheat has more nutritional value than rye. But since oats have more nutritional value than rice, it follows that wheat has more nutritional value than rice.
Any of the following, if introduced into the argument as an additional premise, makes the argument above logically correct EXCEPT:
- A. Wheat and oats have the same nutritional value.
- B. Oats have more nutritional value than wheat
- C. Rye has more nutritional value than oats.
- D. Rye and oats have the same nutritional value.
- E. Rye has more nutritional value than rice.
Answer: C
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The question asks for a different premise that does not make the argument logically correct. Choice A leaves open the possibility that the conclusion of the argument is false.
NEW QUESTION 215
The program to control the entry of illegal drugs into the country was a failure in 1987. If the program had been successful, the wholesale price of most illegal drugs would not have dropped substantially in 1987.
The argument in the passage depends on which of the following assumptions?
- A. The supply of illegal drugs dropped substantially in 1987.
- B. A drop in demand for most illegal drugs in 1987 was not the sole cause of the drop in their wholesale price.
- C. Domestic production of illegal drugs increased at a higher rate than did the entry of such drugs into the country.
- D. The wholesale price of a few illegal drugs increased substantially in 1987.
- E. The price paid for most illegal drugs by the average consumer did not drop substantially in 1987.
Answer: B
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NEW QUESTION 216
Environmentalist: The commissioner of the Fish and Game Authority would have the public believe that increases in the number of marine fish caught demonstrate that this resource is no longer endangered.
This is a specious argument, as unsound as it would be to assert that the ever-increasing rate at which rain forests are being cut down demonstrates a lack of danger to that resource. The real cause of the increased fish-catch is a greater efficiency in using technologies that deplete resources.
The environmentalist's statements, if true, best support which of the following as a conclusion?
- A. Modern technologies waste resources by catching inedible fish.
- B. The proportion of marine fish that are caught is as high as the proportion of rain-forest trees that are cut down each year.
- C. The use of technology is the reason for the increasing encroachment of people on nature.
- D. It is possible to determine how many fish are in the sea in some way other than by catching fish.
- E. Marine fish continue to be an endangered resource.
Answer: E
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NEW QUESTION 217
The Red Balloon Challenge was an experiment aimed at determining how quickly widely disbursed information could be gathered using social media. Competitors tried to locate 10 red weather balloons that had been tethered above random locations around the world in return for a $40,000 prize. The winning team located all of the balloons in just 9 hours, using an incentive-based strategy to encourage information sharing; The first person to send the correct coordinates of a particular balloon to the team received $2,000, but whoever recruited that person received $1,000, and the recruiter's recruiter received S500, and that person's recruiter received $250.
Select for 3 payments per balloon the amount of the prize money that the winning team would have remaining if they had to pay 3 people for each balloon located, and select for 4 payments per balloon the amount of the prize money that the winning team would have remaining if they had to pay 4 people for each balloon located.
Make only two selections, one in each column.
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NEW QUESTION 218 
- A. BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient.
- B. Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) alone is not sufficient.
- C. Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient.
- D. EACH statement ALONE is sufficient.
- E. Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) alone is not sufficient.
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 219
Psychologist: People tend instinctively to impose patterns on events even when such patterns are not really present. If early humans believed that a rustle in the grass indicated a dangerous predator when it was just the wind, they were more likely to survive than if they believed that it was just the wind when a dangerous predator was there. Thus, in a world of split-second interactions between predators and prey, a person who made an error of the first type was more likely to survive than a person who made an error of the second type.
So the tendency to make the first type of error is probably due to__________.
Which of the following would, if true, most logically complete the psychologist's argument?
- A. a widespread fear of dangerous animals
- B. a tendency to treat hidden perils as more dangerous than obvious perils
- C. anxiety to avoid the first type of error
- D. a decision people make to avoid taking risks
- E. evolutionary processes affecting the human species
Answer: E
NEW QUESTION 220
Of the 45 households in a certain neighborhood, 28 subscribe to Newspaper Q, 17 subscribe to Newspaper R,
12 subscribe to Newspaper S, 7 subscribe to both Q and R, 8 subscribe to both Q and 5, and 9 subscribe to both R and 5. The number of households who subscribe to all three newspapers is equal to the number of households who subscribe to none of the three newspapers. If 39 of the households subscribe to at least one of the three newspapers, how many households subscribe to only one of the newspapers?
- A. 0
- B. 1
- C. 2
- D. 3
- E. 4
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 221
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