PrepTest 148, Section 2, Question 25
There are some basic conceptual problems hovering about(451 more words not shown)
According to the passage, psychologist(12 more words not shown)
- Aindependent modules that(8 more words not shown)
- Bessentially an amalgamation(4 more words not shown)
- Cgenerally uniform in(5 more words not shown)
- Ddetectable using brain(8 more words not shown)
- Efeatures of a(9 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Uttal’s view is the alternative to separate modules. He thinks the various mental processes are likely to be properties of a more general activity distributed throughout the brain. Keep both the relationship and the location: particular processes are features of a broader activity, and that activity is spread out.
Working the answers
- A
This is the modular view Uttal challenges: independent units based in different brain areas. It reverses the attribution.
- B
The discussion of emotion and reason illustrates why a clean separation can be problematic. Uttal’s broader claim does not reduce all mental processes to a mixture of those two things.
- C
Being distributed throughout the brain does not mean having the same oxygen-use rate everywhere. Uttal’s claim does not specify uniform rates.
- D
The account does not say that the subtractive method makes Uttal’s distributed processes detectable. The later criticism is that subtraction can obscure distributed functions, rather than display them more clearly.
- ECorrect
This closely restates the second paragraph: mental processes are likely to be properties of a “more general mental activity” that is “distributed throughout the brain.” It gives Uttal’s proposed relationship without importing the separate-module view.
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