QUESTION TYPE: Necessary Assumption
CONCLUSION: Inhibiting displays of emotion causes a sharp rise in heart rate.
REASONING: Those who consciously repress emotions experience a rise in heart rate, as do those who unconsciously repress emotions.
ANALYSIS: What if emotional situations cause a rise in heart rate, whether or not we express emotion? The argument must assume this does not occur.
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- CORRECT. If the emotional situation itself is sufficient to provoke a higher heart rate, then this argument is worthless.
- The argument still works even if nonrepressors are less effective at inhibiting their emotions.
- Not necessary. They are excited because they are repressing their emotions. How excited isn’t crucial as long as their heart rate goes up.
- This is tempting, but we don’t know how the experiment was conducted. It might not have involved researchers asking test subjects to repress emotions.
- The stimulus talks about an increase in heart rate. Baseline heart rate does not matter.
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