Liang: Watching movies in which

Answer choices

1. A

   No Support Person 19% picked this

   people who experience an emotion vicariously are likely to purge themselves

   We have no way to derive any ideas about vicarious emotions being purged from the first speaker, since Liang didn't speak to any of that.

   9%
2. B

   No Support from Either17% picked this

   the members of a mature audience are unlikely to believe that violence is sometimes an appropriate

   Liang didn't speak about mature audiences at all. Sarah didn't talk about how likely or unlikely a mature audience would be to believe that violence can be an appropriate way to solve problems.

   17%
3. C

   No Support from Person 216% picked this

   if violence in certain movies causes violence in viewers, access to those movies

   Neither person talked about violence in movies causing violence in viewers. Liang said it increases levels of aggression, but that's not necessarily violence. Sarah didn't explicitly talk about restricting access to anyone. She explicitly talked about not restricting access. So we have no support from her for this claim.

   16%
4. D

   Correct57% picked this

   the effects of dramatic depictions of violence on audiences are at

   Why this is right

   Haha, what a garbage correct answer. As we mentioned before, the correct answer to Agree is usually some background fact / assumption that both people implicitly recognize. We can tell that Liang thinks that the effects of dramatic depictions of violence are at least partially understood, because Liang acts as though it's a known fact that "watching depictions of violence as an appropriate way to resolve problems has the effect of increasing levels of aggression in viewers". And we know Sarah would agree because she acts as though it's a known fact that "watching depictions of violent characters has the effect of letting the audience experience aggressive emotions and purge them." Since they both cited "causal facts" about the effects of violence in movies, they must both think that we at least partially understand the effects of violence in movies.

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

   57%
5. E

   No Support from Either2% picked this

   children are more likely than adults to be attracted to dramas involving characters

   Neither person made any comparisons about whether adults or children would be more likely to be attracted to violent dramas.

   2%