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1. The author of the passage would most likely agree with which of the following statements about the brain hormone oxytocin?

(A) Its overall effects require further evaluation.
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(B) In the future, it will be used to cure mental illness and drug addiction.
Incorrect- too drastic to suggest
(C) It is not useful for people who are already able to interpret social cues.
Incorrect- not mentioned
(D) Its effects on the brain are unknown.
Incorrect- brain hormone oxytocin, which is known to increase feelings of calm and social bonding.
(E) It is more effective when dosed via nasal spray than orally.
Incorrect- nothing about oral administration is mentioned.

2. The passage lends the most support to which of the following conclusions about the nasal spray study of oxytocin?

(A) The results of the study are inconclusive because a sample set of 40 students is not substantial.
Incorrect- not mentioned in passage
(B) The nasal spray of oxytocin increased feelings of calm and social bonding for the students.
Incorrect- after a nasal spray dose of oxytocin, the students’ awareness of the expressions was intensified
(C) Many students were unable to recognize the expressions shown to them when given only the control dose of salt water.
Incorrect- not mentioned. awareness was only intensified
(D) The students who might need oxytocin most are the ones who appear most responsive to the hormone.
Correct- oxytocin had the greatest effect on those who were least able to evaluate emotions properly when given the control.
(E) The subtler the expression, the more difficult it was for the students to identify.
Incorrect trap answer- nothing about the effect of the subtlety of expressions is mentioned.

3. Which of the following is not mentioned in the passage regarding the Norwegian study on oxytocin?

(A) The study showed that oxytocin made students more able to distinguish faces from one another.
Correct- the students’ awareness of the expressions was intensified
However faces are different from facial expressions
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(B) Leknes was the lead scientist in the investigation.-
Incorrect- para 3 line 1
(C) A control dose of salt water was used to gauge normal student ability to recognize facial expressions.
Incorrect- each of whom was given either a control dose of salt water or the drug oxytocin
(D) Students who participated in the study were shown happy, angry, or neutral expressions.
Incorrect- After the nasal dose, the studentswere shown faces of happy, angry, or neutral expressions
(E) Oxytocin had the greatest effect on students who were least able to evaluate emotions properly when given the control dose
. Incorrect- Para 2- last line
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1. (A) Correct, as inferred from passage.
2. (D) Correct as oxytocin had the greatest effect on those who were least able to evaluate emotions properly.
3. (A) Correct as the students’ awareness of the expressions were intensified.
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In Question 1, choice A: the word 'further' is a red flag I guess. Because the passage says 'without evaluation' which means that it needs evaluation not furtehr evalution.

Let me know if anyone has an opinion on this
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