Test 2. Чтение

1. Восстановите текст, подбирая фрагменты предложений по смыслу: What is it that pushes a person to end the life of another person? Does it take a special sort of human to kill, or is there potential in all of us? Does it depend upon situations and scenarios? Are we all born killers who repress our urges, or must we break down social and psychological barriers before we can take a life? These are questions...
whose job includes killing enemies in combat
people have been trying to answer for centuries.
we have no definitive answers for these questions.
What Makes A Killer?

2. There are many different kinds of killers. There are mentally unstable killers who display psychopathic or sociopathic tendencies. These people appear to have limited resistance to killing if they have any at all. Then there are assassins and hit men who kill either for profit or to maintain status within a group. There are those who kill out of self-defense. And there are the soldiers...
we have no definitive answers for these questions.
whose job includes killing enemies in combat
humans have toward killing other people.
What Makes A Mental Disorder?

3. Is there a common element among all these types of killers? Or does each category have its own special circumstances? There's a great deal of debate over the issue. A soldier likely would object to being placed in the same category as a serial killer. But under the surface, assuming the soldier is willing and able to kill an enemy, how is he or she...
different from someone who kills compulsively?
like?
humans have toward killing other people.
we have no definitive answers for these questions.

4. The subject is difficult to address without either sensationalizing or downplaying the elements involved. The truth of the matter is...
brutalization, classical conditioning, operant conditioning and role modeling
we have no definitive answers for these questions.
What Are Behavioral Traits?
may help us treat and prevent tragedy in the future.

5. But scientists, psychologists, psychiatrists and neurologists have proposed hypotheses for why we might kill. There's a somewhat controversial approach to psychology that says some, if not many, of our behaviors are hardwired into us. According to this science, humans evolved with certain behavioral traits...
that they passed down to subsequent generations.
we have no definitive answers for these questions.
have been consulted
may help us treat and prevent tragedy in the future.

6. Over time, these behaviors can change. The approach falls under the umbrella of evolutionary psychology. According to this hypothesis, people became more adept at both avoiding and inflicting harm over generations. From a high-level perspective, you could say that based on this hypothesis...
may help us treat and prevent tragedy in the future.
that we are all capable of killing.
we have no definitive answers for these questions.
we can have

7. Many proponents of evolutionary psychology acknowledge that a person's circumstances will influence him or her as well. But at our core, we are all killers. Assuming we aren't all killers who refrain from causing harm due to social or psychological restrictions, what could create a killer? According to soldiers like retired U.S. Army Lt.Col. Dave Grossman, it's a process involving four strategies:...
we have no definitive answers for these questions.
brutalization, classical conditioning, operant conditioning and role modeling
What Are Behavioral Traits?
may help us treat and prevent tragedy in the future.

8. Many killers have expressed feelings of alienation and have shown evidence of harboring violent fantasies before they commit to killing. In some cases, the killer suffers from a mental disorder or brain damage that either inhibits or prevents the social and psychological restrictions....
we have no definitive answers for these questions.
humans have toward killing other people
brutalization, classical conditioning, operant conditioning and role modeling
What Makes A Killer?

9. Whether we're repressing urges that are more than several millennia old or we're naturally averse to ending the life of another person, it's clear that in most cases we need a catalyst to push us to killing. Identifying and understanding the elements that can change a person at risk into a killer...
we have no definitive answers for these questions.
brutalization, classical conditioning, operant conditioning and role modeling
may help us treat and prevent tragedy in the future.
he had entered

10. Прочитайте восстановленный текст и выберите к нему заголовок:
What Are Behavioral Traits?
What Makes A Mental Disorder?
What Makes A Killer?
What is An Evolutionary Psychology?

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