CAT Previous Year Questions 2022: Reading Comprehension- 2 (June 15) - CAT MCQ

Despite practising meditation and cultivating the right attitude, emotions cannot ever be controlled.

The Greek philosopher Zeno survived into the Roman era until about AD 300.

In the Stoic view, choosing a reasoned, unemotional response as the first movement is an appropriate response to emotional situations.

In the Epicurean view, indulging in simple pleasures is not desirable.

Emotional responses can make it difficult to distinguish valuable experiences from valueless experiences.

“Meditation and the right attitude”, in this instance, implies an initially passive reception of all experiences.

Meditation allows certain out-of-body experiences that permit us to gain the distance necessary to control our emotions.

The observation of emotions in a distant manner corresponds to the second movement referred to earlier in the passage.

There were no Stoics in India at the time of the Roman civilisation.

The Epicureans believed in controlling all emotions.

The Stoic influences can be seen in multiple religions.

The Stoics valorised the pursuit of money, power, and sexual gratification.

Marcus Aurelius was one of the leaders of the Roman army.

Marcus Aurelius was humiliated by the accusation of treason in front of the other officers.

Marcus Aurelius was a Stoic whose philosophy survived into the Roman era.

Marcus Aurelius plotted revenge in his quest for justice.

As musicking is neither language-like nor symbol-like, it is a much older form of expression.

Nonmusical capacities are of far greater consequence to human survival than the capacity  for music.

Musical capacities are primarily socio-cultural, which explains the wide diversity of musical forms.

From a cognitive and psychological vantage, musicking arises from unconscious dispositions, not conscious ones.

Humans; Psychological vantage; Musicking; Cassirer; Emergence of music.

Musicking; Cognitive psychology; Antique; Symbol-makers; Modernity.

Humans; Capacities; Language; Symbols; Modernity.

Humans; Musicking; Linguistic capacities; Symbol-making; Modern humanity.

Although musicking is not language-like, it shares the quality of being a form of expression.

All musical work is located in the overlap between linguistic capacity and music production.

Anyone who can perceive and experience music must be considered capable of musicking.

20,000 years ago, human musical capacities were not very different from what they are today.

exhibit higher intelligence than other molluscs.

do not possess an outer protective shell.

are consumed by humans and other animals.

have several arms.

polar bears

cuttlefish

squids

sea snails

the hydrostatic pressure at the depths at which Cephalopods reside renders radial muscle movements difficult.

the number of chromatophores in Cephalopods is half the number of iridophores and leucophores.

light reflects the colours red, green, and yellow at the depths at which Cephalopods reside.

the temperature of water at the depths at which Cephalopods reside renders the transmission of neural signals difficult.