Q15 - Children clearly have a reasonably sophisticated

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Question Type:
ID the Conclusion

Stimulus Breakdown:
Conclusion: Children have a reasonably sophisticated understanding of what is real and what is pretend.
Evidence: You can ask them which is which and they generally get it right. Even when they seem to be scared of someone pretending, it's not genuine terror. They wouldn't enjoy make-believe if they didn't have a good dividing line between real and pretend.

Answer Anticipation:
We just need an answer choice that replicates the meaning of the first sentence.

Correct Answer:
A

Answer Choice Analysis:
(A) Easy peasy, lemon squeezy. (as the kids say)

(B) Premise

(C) Premise

(D) Premise

(E) Premise

Takeaway/Pattern: As always, the only challenge in ID the Conclusion should be finding the conclusion. As long as we've bracketed the right conclusion in the paragraph, finding the answer is just a matter of seeing whether an answer is / isn't saying the same thing as the sentence we bracketed.

When we're looking for conclusions on ID the Conclusion, we are NOT expecting "thus/therefore/hence" or "last-sentence conclusion". We ARE expecting conclusions that appear EARLIER than the evidence (usually the first sentence or after some but/yet/however rebuttal).

Sometimes we also have to rely on opinion indicator words like "clearly" in the first sentence.

We verify that something is a conclusion by saying, "Yes, this is an opinion from the author, and yes the author provides at least one supporting idea for why we should believe that opinion."

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