RC Drill Set 4, Question 3
This passage is adapted from a book published(425 more words not shown)
The author mentions the large(17 more words not shown)
- Areinforce the notion(14 more words not shown)
- Bidentify the main(13 more words not shown)
- Csuggest that the(10 more words not shown)
- Dcall into question(9 more words not shown)
- Eimply that it(16 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
More information isn't automatically better. The discussion of verbal and nonverbal cues leads to the problem of overload: jurors may fall back on stereotypes instead of carefully processing everything. We need an answer explaining why that matters to Brakel's case for live testimony.
Working the answers
- A
This concerns jurors' interpretation of information, not witnesses' awareness of perjury penalties. That was a different objection in paragraph 2.
- B
The writer is challenging the claimed advantage of extra cues, not presenting them as support for live testimony's superiority.
- C
Difficulty judging testimony doesn't establish how often witnesses lie. This switches from the observer's problem to the witness's behavior.
- DCorrect
Brakel assumes that the extra cues reliably help jurors assess truthfulness. Overload can instead push them toward “preconceptions rather than critical observation.” That calls the assumed benefit into question: seeing more can make the judgment worse rather than better.
- E
We aren't being told that the range of cues is impossible to identify. The issue is whether jurors can make reliable use of the information they receive.
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