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Freud’s theories

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by slash » Thu Nov 20, 2008 1:15 am
Guys any explanations on this

Freud’s theories of the workings of the mind, while brilliant for their day, were formulated before most of this century’s great advances in neurophysiology and biochemistry. Today, we have a far deeper understanding of the biological components of thought, emotion, and behavior than was dreamed of eighty years ago. It would be foolish to continue parroting Freud’s psychological theories as if these advances had never occurred.
It can be inferred from the passage above that the author would be most likely to favor
(A) the abandonment of most of Freud’s theories
(B) a greater reliance on biological rather than psychological explanations of behavior
(C) a critical reexamination of Freud’s place in the history of psychology
(D) a reexamination of Freud’s theories in the light of contemporary biology
(E) increased financial support for studies in neurophysiology and biochemistry
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Source: — Critical Reasoning |

by rohangupta83 » Thu Nov 20, 2008 1:25 am
I believe you were stuck between B and D you picked B.

The reason why B is incorrect is because the conclusion focuses on Freud's psychological theories and not psychological theories in general making B out of scope.

Conclusion - It would be foolish to continue parroting Freud’s psychological theories as if these advances had never occurred.

choice D seems to be accurate because

1. Talks about Freud's psychological theories
2. Attempts to pit Freud's theories against new biological evidence.

Initially I chose B as well but then realized it was not talking about Freud's psychological theories.

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by raunekk » Thu Nov 20, 2008 5:06 am
imo:D

OA??
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by slash » Thu Nov 20, 2008 5:09 am
Yes Guys U ROCK !!!

I did the mistake what rohangupta83 has pointed out.

It's D
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Freud's theory

by NehaBhandari » Fri Nov 21, 2008 10:26 am
Why is A not possible can someone explain. I eliminated D because of the word re-examination .. does the author tend to reexamine the theory or abandon it completely?
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by cramya » Fri Nov 21, 2008 10:28 pm
The reason why B is incorrect is because the conclusion focuses on Freud's psychological theories and not psychological theories in general making B out of scope
Rohan, did u mean to say the opposite of this i.e B) talks about psychological theories in general and not just Freud's psychological theories

Hope I dint miss something here!
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by rohangupta83 » Sun Nov 23, 2008 9:16 am
cramya wrote:
The reason why B is incorrect is because the conclusion focuses on Freud's psychological theories and not psychological theories in general making B out of scope
Rohan, did u mean to say the opposite of this i.e B) talks about psychological theories in general and not just Freud's psychological theories

Hope I dint miss something here!
yup! you got it Cramya :)
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by Stacey Koprince » Mon Nov 24, 2008 1:44 pm
I received a PM asking me to respond.

F's theories were brill then, but that was before neurophys and biochem. We know bio better now. Shouldn't keep using F's theories without taking new bio stuff into account.

infer

The author does say F's theories were good (better than good: brilliant!) once upon a time but now we have new, bio-based info that F didn't have. Author doesn't say F's theories are therefore bad now. Simply says that we can't keep going by exactly what F said - we have to take the new, bio-based stuff into account here and see.

(A) is too extreme. The author does not say "it would be foolish to continue parroting F's theories period - he's totally wrong." Instead, the author says "it would be foolish to continue parroting F's theories without taking into account the new information." Perhaps F's theories will mesh with the new info. Perhaps not. We really don't know what the author thinks about that because s/he doesn't say.

(B) is too broad, as others have pointed out. Also, B says that bio should be more important than psych. The author doesn't say anything to justify downgrading psych - the author merely advocates for paying attention to bio as well. The author may also want to downgrade psych - but s/he hasn't said so in this paragraph.

(D) pretty much says what I said above - don't just parrot F's theories without taking into account the new stuff. That implies that the author wants to look at F's theories in the context of the new stuff - which is what D says.
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Re: Freud's theory

by rajibgmat » Fri Nov 28, 2008 5:42 pm
NehaBhandari wrote:Why is A not possible can someone explain. I eliminated D because of the word re-examination .. does the author tend to reexamine the theory or abandon it completely?
A is little too extreme because it tells about the abondment of most of Freud's theory, whereas we are strictly concerned about his psychological theory.
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by kris77 » Thu May 12, 2016 1:20 pm
I agree with you guys. I also think that the right answer is D
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