Logical Reasoning

PT109 · S1 · Q9 The same task triggers different

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The same task triggers different levels of awareness of one’s surroundings, called environmental awareness, in different individuals.

Information

causal math puzzles >> increased environmental awareness (for most people)

formulate answer visually >> decreased enviro awareness (for some people)

brain signals rest after each stage >> increased enviro aware (for some people)

Evaluate

Most Supported usually tests us on cause/effect relationships, and this stimulus gave us three different ones.

They don't chain together, because they're just about how different people react to solving math puzzles.

Goal

It's hard to predict what the answer will say, but since we heard that for some people environmental awareness goes up while for others it goes down, it might be a wishy-washy statement capturing that, like .

9.

Which one of the following is most strongly supported by the information above?

  1. Correct

    There are some people for

    Why this is right

    The main clause of that long gross second sentence is that "some people...experience a decrease in environmental awareness while solving the puzzle." That proves that there are some people for whom puzzles do not cause an increased level of awareness.

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

    80% picked this

  2. People who visually formulate answers

    Unsupported Comparison

    The difference between those who visually formulate answers and those who don't is that the visual formulators experience a decrease in environmental awareness, whereas others experience an increase. We're never told in absolute terms that one group is aware of their surroundings and another is unaware.

    8% picked this

  3. People tend to be more

    Unsupported Comparison

    Mathematical puzzles are given as an example, but we're never given information that lets us compare mathematical problems vs. non-mathematical problems.

    3% picked this

  4. Mathematical problem solvers who rely

    Too Strong: only

    The "only" in this answer should make us suspicious right out of the gate. None of the statements in the stimulus are conditional, so it's highly unlikely that our answer would be that strong. This is also a bit of a word salad: the information we get about visual techniques in claim 2 isn't related to the concept of rest in claim 3.

    5% picked this

  5. Mathematical problem solving requires frequent

    Too Strong: requires

    Like D, this answer is conditional. That means it's highly unlikely to be correct if the stimulus is not conditional. This stimulus tells us what mathematical problem solving causes, but it doesn't ever tell us what it requires.

    4% picked this

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