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ACT Reading 1.4 Social Science Passage. Which of the following best describes the main idea of this passage?
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- 00:03
Here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by the social sciences. They're a lot more
- 00:07
fun to have around than the antisocial ones.
- 00:33
Which of the following best describes the main idea of this passage?
- 00:43
At this point, we've read through the passage several times, so we should be able to nix
- 00:47
the answers that don't sum up the main point without breaking a sweat.
Full Transcript
- 00:50
Which will differ vastly from the intense yoga workshop we were subjected to at the
- 00:54
last Shmoop retreat.
- 00:55
Freud doesn't necessarily agree that dreams can literally predict the future. If he did,
- 01:00
he would probably be remembered as a quack.
- 01:02
However, he does say that the old-school interpretation of dreams isn't to be totally dismissed.
- 01:08
In any case, choice (A) definitely isn't the main point of this passage.
- 01:12
Answer (B) is obviously incorrect. If we've learned anything from this passage, it's
- 01:16
that Freud was all about dream interpretation. (D) is also wrong. Freud says that while they're
- 01:22
connected to the world of the mind, dreams are connected to the physical world as well.
- 01:26
Guess if we want to influence our dreams, we'll have to... get physical.
- 01:30
(C) is the major point of the passage.
- 01:32
Basically, Freud is arguing that dream interpretation and psychoanalysis can go hand in hand.
- 01:37
Or... foot in mouth, as the case may be.
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