Which sentence provides the best support for the ideas...

Which sentence provides the best support for the ideas presented in this section? $$\begin{array}{l}{\text { (A) } \text { NO CHANGE }} \\ {\text { (B) Freud lived and worked mostly in London although he had }} \\ {\text { originally trained in Austria. }} \\ {\text { (C) While some of Freud's more unusual practices have been }} \\ {\text { criticized or abandoned, his interest in the unconscious }} \\ {\text { (D) Psychologists today employ many theories, not just those }} \\ {\text { developed by Freud. }}\end{array}$$

Which sentence provides the best support for the ideas
presented in this section?
$$\begin{array}{l}{\text { (A) } \text { NO CHANGE }} \\ {\text { (B) Freud lived and worked mostly in London although he had }} \\ {\text { originally trained in Austria. }} \\ {\text { (C) While some of Freud's more unusual practices have been }} \\ {\text { criticized or abandoned, his interest in the unconscious }} \\ {\text { (D) Psychologists today employ many theories, not just those }} \\ {\text { developed by Freud. }}\end{array}$$

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Key Concepts

Textual Support

This concept involves identifying and selecting specific sentences or passages in a text that effectively bolster the main ideas or arguments being presented. It requires understanding how each sentence contributes contextually and substantively to the overall argument or narrative of the text.

Contextual Relevance

Contextual relevance refers to the necessity of ensuring that the piece of evidence chosen directly ties to and enhances the specific ideas or themes presented in a section. It involves evaluating whether the details provided align with and meaningfully support the intended direction of the argument.

Evidence-Based Reasoning

This involves the critical evaluation of different textual options to determine which one provides the strongest, most direct evidence for the ideas discussed. It requires analysis of how well a statement reinforces a text's claims rather than merely providing peripheral information.

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00:01 Question number 30 here.

00:03 We have an underlined portion and they want to know which sentence provides the best support for the ideas presented in this section.

00:10 By this section, we're going to take that to mean this paragraph here.

00:17 So before you get seduced by the original, just because it's here, make sure you check the prior context to see what we're really looking for.

00:26 We want to know what are the ideas presented in this section.

00:30 So the ideas that we're getting, just at a glance up here, some of his ideas have been dismissed as outdated and scientific or harmful.

00:43 His contribution was significant.

00:45 Father of psychoanalysis, study and treatment, understanding patients, patients lying face up, deep recesses of the mind, unconscious.

00:56 I'm just being very slaptastic here.

00:59 Repressed memories, neurosis, conscious thought, internal unconscious, whatever.

01:09 Great.

01:09 So we're getting a lot of information here about freud's methods, like his very specific, this thing about psychoanalysis.

01:18 And we're getting, in the topic sentence of the paragraph here, some of his stuff being dismissed, outdated and scientific or harmful.

01:28 Those are basically the two.

01:29 Ideas that are floating here...

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