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by bryan88 » Sun Mar 25, 2012 4:35 am
All human languages feature utterances that can be characterized as curses: verbal exclamations in response to surprise, anger, or frustration. Traditionally, neuroscientists believed that verbal cursing behavior was modulated by the same speech centers in the brain that initiate and control other forms of speech. More recent research, however, has begun to produce conclusions inconsistent with that assumption.

Which of the following pieces of evidence, if true, contradicts the belief that verbal cursing behavior originates in the same speech centers as other types of speech?

A)The frequency of verbal cursing behavior and the readiness with which individuals curse correlate with the frequency of verbal cursing behavior exhibited by their parents or other primary caregivers.
B)While some people demonstrate verbal cursing behavior readily in response to relatively low levels of stimuli, other people hardly ever curse at all.
C)When people move from one social group to another, the frequency of their verbal cursing behavior varies in response to the level prevalent in different groups.
D)People who have suffered damage or loss to the physical mechanisms required to produce speech, the larynx or parts of the mouth, still exhibit gestures and expressions associated with verbal cursing behavior when frustrated.
E)Aphasiacs, people who have suffered damage to speech centers in the brain and are unable to speak normally, still exhibit verbal cursing behavior when under stress.

Help me out with C.
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by sam2304 » Sun Mar 25, 2012 6:34 am
cursing behaviour -> done by speech center, which control all regular forms of speech.
Recent research - contradict this assumption.

What supports the recent research in other words ? We need proof that something other than speech center is involved in controlling the cursing behaviour

E - supports that if aphasiacs, people who have language impairment because of damage to speech center then cursing behavior should also be lessened, whereas it is stated that they can still exhibit verbal cursing behavior so something other than speech center is involved in cursing behavior.

Other options don't provide any link to speech center and cursing behavior.
A/C - mentions about frequency - Irrelevant
B - mentions about response time - irrelevant
D - mentions about physical inability to speak
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by klmehta03 » Thu Mar 29, 2012 11:24 am
IMO E. OA pls?

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by patanjali.purpose » Thu Mar 29, 2012 11:44 am
bryan88 wrote:All human languages feature utterances that can be characterized as curses: verbal exclamations in response to surprise, anger, or frustration. Traditionally, neuroscientists believed that verbal cursing behavior was modulated by the same speech centers in the brain that initiate and control other forms of speech. More recent research, however, has begun to produce conclusions inconsistent with that assumption.

Which of the following pieces of evidence, if true, contradicts the belief that verbal cursing behavior originates in the same speech centers as other types of speech?

A)The frequency of verbal cursing behavior and the readiness with which individuals curse correlate with the frequency of verbal cursing behavior exhibited by their parents or other primary caregivers.
B)While some people demonstrate verbal cursing behavior readily in response to relatively low levels of stimuli, other people hardly ever curse at all.
C)When people move from one social group to another, the frequency of their verbal cursing behavior varies in response to the level prevalent in different groups.
D)People who have suffered damage or loss to the physical mechanisms required to produce speech, the larynx or parts of the mouth, still exhibit gestures and expressions associated with verbal cursing behavior when frustrated.
E)Aphasiacs, people who have suffered damage to speech centers in the brain and are unable to speak normally, still exhibit verbal cursing behavior when under stress.

Help me out with C.
Argument is all about the place where curses are generated. It is NOT concerned about the FREQUENCY AT WHICH CURSES ARE PRODUCED - drop A/B/C

Bevaiour other curses is not part of the argument - drop D

IMO E

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by Bill@VeritasPrep » Thu Mar 29, 2012 3:26 pm
A--Parents and caregivers are out of scope
B--Cursing stimuli is out of scope
C--Social groups are out of scope
D--Injuries are out of scope
E--If the centers that control normal speech also control cursing, then damage leading to impaired speech should also lead to impaired cursing. E says this is not the case, so it weakens the original hypothesis.

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by agarwalmanoj2000 » Thu Mar 29, 2012 8:19 pm
IMO E

We need to find and option that says verbal cursing behavior DOES NOT originates in the same speech centers as other types of speech

Only option E relates to verbal cursing behavior origin. It says although speech centers is damaged, verbal cursing continues under stress, so verbal cursing must have some other origin.