QUESTION TEXT: The symptoms of mental disorders are behavioral…
QUESTION TYPE: Necessary Assumption
CONCLUSION: Patients whose mental disorders come from chemical imbalances can only be treated with medicine.
REASONING: Some patients can be treated with psychotherapy. But some patients have diseases that come from chemical imbalances.
ANALYSIS: There isn’t really any reasoning given for the conclusion. Instead the argument just states two unconnected facts.
It might be possible to treat a chemical imbalance with psychotherapy. The argument has to assume that can’t be true.
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- CORRECT. The argument is assuming that psychotherapy can’t fix chemical imbalances, but it gives no evidence for that statement.
- The argument only claimed that medication would work. It doesn’t matter how fast it would work.
- It doesn’t matter how common chemical imbalance disorders are. It only matters that psychotherapy can’t treat them.
- This only has to be true that medicine works better for mental disorders caused by chemical imbalances.
- It only has to be true that psychotherapy can’t treat mental disorders caused by chemical imbalances.
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