PrepTest 150, Section 4, Question 12
Common sense suggests that we know our own(462 more words not shown)
According to the passage, one's(10 more words not shown)
- Aan altered way(9 more words not shown)
- Ba more detail-oriented(6 more words not shown)
- Can increased tendency(10 more words not shown)
- Da substantively different(7 more words not shown)
- Ea reduced reliance(11 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The second paragraph says expertise appears to change “not only our knowledge” but “our very perception” of things in the field. The chess example makes that concrete: the expert seems to see that a position is strong or weak without having to calculate it step by step.
What we’re looking for
So this is more than adding facts to memory. Expertise changes how the entities and their relationships appear to the expert. That apparent directness is why the example helps explain the illusion about our own thoughts.
Working the answers
- A
This concerns expressing judgments. The writer describes a change in how experts perceive and grasp relationships, not how they put their judgments into words.
- B
The account doesn't say experts become more detail-oriented. The chess example concerns the apparent immediacy of a judgment, not the amount of attention paid to individual details.
- C
Failing to notice an inference isn't the same as ignoring an error. The expert can reach a correct judgment without noticing the process that produced it. No increased tendency to disregard mistakes is stated.
- DCorrect
Experts appear to grasp entities and their relations directly where they previously had to work them out. That is a substantively different way of understanding those relations, matching both the general explanation and the chess illustration.
- E
Internal sensations and emotions enter later as evidence for inferences about our own thoughts. Nothing says greater expertise reduces our reliance on those clues. In fact, the final paragraph uses their frequent occurrence to explain the development of quick, reliable inferences.
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