Bethany: Psychologists have discovered

Answer choices

1. A

   Bad Conclusion Match3% picked this

   Psychologists should make an effort to determine why certain children are especially prone to nightmares while

   The author wants the psychologists to find nightmare prone children so that the children can learn this technique, not so that the psychologists can investigate root causes of nightmares.

   3%
2. B

   Reversal15% picked this

   Any psychological technique that can be successfully taught to a child can also be successfully

   It would help us to know that "if it's teachable to an adult, then it's teachable to a child", but this answer reverses that logic.

   15%
3. C

   Correct70% picked this

   Psychologists should do everything they can to minimize the number of adults troubled

   Why this is right

   On a first pass I wouldn't find this super appealing. It doesn't reinforce much wording from the argument core, the way that correct answers on Principle-Justify almost always do. But it certainly strengthens. If psychologists should do everything they can to reduce adult nightmares, they would not only teach it to adults (as they're currently doing), they would also direct some efforts towards finding kids with lots of nightmares, who are more likely to become a source of adult nightmares.

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

   70%
4. D

   Weakens / Opposite4% picked this

   Identifying nightmare-prone children is generally more difficult than teaching adults the technique for replacing nightmares

   This would be a reason not to direct efforts towards finding nightmare prone children

   4%
5. E

   Bad Conclusion Match8% picked this

   Psychologists should not teach the technique for replacing nightmares with pleasant dreams to children who are unlikely to

   The conclusion doesn't say that psychologists should only teach this technique to nightmare-prone children. It just affirms that they should spend some energy trying to find such children and teach them the nightmare-avoidance technique. Saying that you shouldn't teach this technique to people less likely to have nightmares is not any sort of justification for the idea that you should teach this technique to people more likely to have nightmares.

   8%