PrepTest 131, Section 4, Question 24
In an experiment, two strangers are given the(452 more words not shown)
The passage implies that the(3 more words not shown)
- Aone that requires(8 more words not shown)
- Bresponsible for overturning(6 more words not shown)
- Ca situation that(3 more words not shown)
- Da type of(3 more words not shown)
- Eproof that our(14 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
What can we establish about the game itself? Keep its rules separate from the proposed explanation of people's behavior. The opening describes strangers facing a single offer; the later discussion compares that setting with the repeated interactions in which our emotions developed.
Working the answers
- A
The rules don't require the strangers to build trust. Each knows what acceptance and rejection will produce. Nothing says they must develop a trusting relationship to participate.
- B
The results pose a puzzle for a traditional assumption. We aren't told that the experiment overturned that assumption throughout theoretical economics.
- C
Surprising under one assumption doesn't mean unpredictable. The author reports recurring patterns in offers and rejections, then tries to explain them.
- DCorrect
It's a one-shot, anonymous interaction. The opening gives us strangers and a single proposal, and the final paragraph expressly contrasts such interactions with the repeated encounters that shaped our emotions.
- E
The evolutionary account is offered to explain the results. The experiment doesn't thereby prove the history of our emotional development. That would turn a proposed explanation into an established finding of the experiment.
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