Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Easy

PT138 S3 Q11 Explanation

Counselor: Many people assume

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Stimulus

Counselor: Many people assume that personal conflicts are inevitable, but that assumption is just not so. Personal conflicts arise primarily because people are being irrational. For instance, people often find it easier to ascribe bad qualities to a person than good ones—even when there is more evidence of the latter. If someone someone is reliable is normally built up only after many years of personal interaction.

What this question is testing

Main Conclusion

Your task

Break the argument into its conclusion and evidence, then do exactly what the question stem asks with that structure.

Common trap

Answers that sound relevant to the topic but don't connect to the argument's actual reasoning.

Winning move

Predict what a right answer must do, then test each choice against the conclusion-evidence gap.

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The question
11.

Which one of the following most accurately expresses the main conclusion drawn

Answer choices

  1. Trap2% picked this

    Many people assume that personal conflicts

  2. Trap4% picked this

    Even when there is more evidence of good qualities than of bad ones, people find it easier to ascribe

  3. Trap3% picked this

    It is irrational to allow a single instance to turn one's suspicion that a friend is unreliable into

  4. Correct91% picked this

    Personal conflicts are not

    Why this is right

    Answer D is correct.

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

  5. Trap1% picked this

    Unlike a suspicion that a friend is unreliable, a belief that someone is reliable is normally built up only after

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