Sneaky Wrong Answers                         Name:____________________

 

Worksheet #3

 

Directions:  Read each question and decide which answers are “extremes” and therefore, WRONG (Some questions have more than one extreme answer). Place a check mark in the right-hand column when you find one of these answers.

 

 

                                            An extreme answer!

The author's claim that “cause is relative only to

           perspective” introduces his argument that:

    A. mental well-being depends on physical strength                    _____    

    B. how something is perceived depends on its nature                _____    

    C. psychological health requires a perfect upbringing                _____    

    D. psychiatric condition depends on numerous factors,  environmental        _____

     and internal

 

The author believes that practicing psychiatrists:

    F. cannot possibly help patients unless they are completely objective        _____

    G. are hopelessly confused over the genesis of mental illness            _____

    H. are scientists notwithstanding the uncertainties that surround psychiatry    _____

    J. should, for the time being, treat mental disease in terms of environment     _____

 

According to the information presented in the third paragraph, an individual

organism will not survive to reproductive age unless:

    A. all of its compensatory mechanisms are in ideal balance                _____    

    B. it has adequate homeostatic and feedback responses                _____

    C. it is capable of complete adaptation to every form of stress            _____    

    D. other individuals of the same species fail to reproduce                _____

 

 

 

 

Directions:  Read each question and decide which answers are just “nice” and don't answer the question.  Place a check mark in the right-hand column when you find one of these answers.

 

                                          

The thought that older citizens might be denied health care on the basis of cost effectiveness is very troublesome and probably not acceptable to modern American society. Yet there is precedent for such policies in other westernized nations. In Sweden, for example, where the overwhelming majority of health care is funded by the government, patients over the age of 55 are not eligible for long-term life-saving renal dialysis The nation has made a decision to invest a certain amount of its resources in renal dialysis, and it does not consider it sensible to provide the service to kidney patients over a certain age. Because Sweden is founded largely on egalitarian principles, a citizen over 55 is not permitted access to renal dialysis even if he is willing to pay for it on his own. The society does not believe that wealth should play a role in longevity.

 

                                              Just “nice-sounding”

                                              and not actually right!

 

In Sweden, which of the following measures is designed to promote

egalitarianism?

    A. already eliminated

    B. The Swedish government denies certain life-saving medical             ______

        resources to older citizens

    C. already eliminated

    D. The Swedish government attempts to provide the same health             ______

        care to all citizens regardless of wealth or age

 

 

 

“And then the men!” said Jonathan, “the men coming aboard drunk, and having to be pounded sober!...” “Well, what can you do?” he went on. “If you don't strike, the men think you're afraid of them...” Jonathan Tinker was plainly part of the horrible tyranny that we all know exists on shipboard; and his listener respected him the more that, though he had heart enough to be ashamed of it, he was too honest not to own it.

                                            

Jonathan's listener respected him because he believed:

    A. already eliminated

    B. Jonathan did not attempt to conceal because his participation             ______

        in maritime abuse.

    C. Jonathan had a good heart and basically cared for his men.            ______

    D. already eliminated