Logical Reasoning

PT108 · S3 · Q25 Anthropologist: After mapping the complete

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Anthropologist: After mapping the complete dominance hierarchy for a troupe of vervet monkeys by examining their pairwise interaction, we successfully predicted more complex forms of their group behavior by assuming that each monkey had knowledge of the complete hierarchy.

Your task

Describe how the argument proceeds — the technique it uses to reach its conclusion.

Common trap

Answers that describe a method the argument doesn't actually use.

Winning move

Track the role each statement plays, then match that to the choice describing the same moves.

25.

The primatologist uses which one of the following argumentative techniques in countering the anthropologist's argument?

  1. citing various facts that could

    Trap

    1% picked this

  2. offering another argument that has

    Trap

    2% picked this

  3. Correct

    applying one of the anthropologist's

    Why this is right

    Answer C is correct.

    Skill tested: Method · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

    93% picked this

  4. attacking the anthropologist's expertise by

    Trap

    4% picked this

  5. suggesting that the anthropologist's argument

    Trap

    1% picked this

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