Logical Reasoning

PT17 · S3 · Q15 Babies who can hear and have hearing

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Babies who can hear and have hearing parents who expose them to speech begin to babble at a certain age as a precursor to speaking.

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.

15.

The information above, if accurate, can best be used as evidence against which one of the following hypotheses?

  1. Names of persons or things

    Trap

    1% picked this

  2. Correct

    The development of language competency

    Why this is right

    Answer B is correct.

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

    75% picked this

  3. In the absence of adults

    Trap

    6% picked this

  4. In babbling, babies are unaware

    Trap

    10% picked this

  5. The making of hand gestures

    Trap

    8% picked this

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