PrepTest 115, Section 1, Question 27
Some philosophers find the traditional, subjective approach to(449 more words not shown)
Based on the passage, which(17 more words not shown)
- Acollecting accounts of(16 more words not shown)
- Binterviewing subjects during(16 more words not shown)
- Crecording subjects' evaluation(18 more words not shown)
- Danalyzing the amount(20 more words not shown)
- Easking subjects to(24 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
I'd look for an external measurement, like the nerve impulses in the opening. The objectivist approach studies evidence observable from the outside instead of relying on a person's account of what an experience feels like.
Working the answers
- A
Dream accounts depend on what subjects report about their private experiences.
- B
Interviewing people about their moods still relies on their reports of an inner experience. Measuring the weather doesn't make the reported moods objective measurements.
- C
These are the subjects' own evaluations of their stress. Even a numerical rating could be a subjective report; the source of the information matters.
- DCorrect
The amount of a chemical in the bloodstream is externally measurable. Relating that measurement to aggressive behavior resembles the opening's example of investigating nerve impulses. We don't have to ask subjects how aggression feels to obtain that physical evidence.
- E
Speaking thoughts aloud lets the researcher hear a report, but the report still comes from the person's access to their own thinking. It is not an independent measurement of that thinking.
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