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6. The topic of the passage is
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7. The central idea of the entire passage is that
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8. Identify the qualifer in the following sentence:
"You may find yourself sleeping better, exercising more and caring more about other people."
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9. Identify the qualifier in the following sentence:
"New research shows that people who consciously remind themselves every day of the things they are grateful for show marked improvements in mental health and some aspects of physical health."
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10. Identify the biased word in the following sentence:
"The results appear to be equally true for healthy college students and people with incurable diseases, according to new research published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology."
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11. "The results appear to be equally true for healthy college students and people with incurable diseases, according to new research published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology."
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12. "College students asked to fill out a weekly report of five things for which they were grateful cited things such as 'the generosity of friends' and 'the Rolling Stones.'"
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13. "Another group of students was asked to keep a daily diary for two weeks and express gratitude for things that had gone well each day."
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14. "A third group, comprising adults with incurable diseases such as polio, were asked to write down what they were thankful for each day for three weeks."
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15. "The grateful people were also nicer to others and more willing to help people with personal problems, leading the researchers to conclude that 'gratitude serves as a moral motivator.'"
A biased word in this sentence is
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16. "The grateful people were also nicer to others and more willing to help people with personal problems, leading the researchers to conclude that 'gratitude serves as a moral motivator.'"
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17. "People who took pleasure in troubles of others—Schadenfreude—had better mental health than those who counted hassles but worse than grateful people."
One biased word in this sentence is
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18. "People who took pleasure in troubles of others—Schadenfreude—had better mental health than those who counted hassles but worse than grateful people."
Another biased word in this sentence is
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19. "People who took pleasure in troubles of others—Schadenfreude—had better mental health than those who counted hassles but worse than grateful people."
A third biased word in this sentence is
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20. "The research was conducted by Robert A. Emmons at the University of California at Davis and Michael E. McCullough of the University of Miami."
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Step 2: Refer to the passage "Count Your Blessings and Increase Them" in the Lab Manual. Then answer the following multiple-choice questions.