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On completing both the course in experimental design and the developmental psychology course, Angela will have earned a degree in psychology. Since experimental design, which must be completed before taking developmental psychology, will not be offered until next term, it will be at least two terms before Angela gets her psychology degree

If the statements above are all true, which one of the following must also be true?

(A) The developmental psychology course Angela needs to take requires two terms to complete.

(B) The course in experimental design is an easier course than the course in developmental psychology.

(C) There are no prerequisites for the course in experimental design.

(D) Anyone who earns a degree in psychology from the university Angela attends will have completed the course in experimental design.

(E) Once Angela completes the developmental psychology course, she will have earned a degree in psychology.

Xmarksthespot · Accepted Answer

D is absolutely wrong. It's a pretty big leap going from requirements specific for Angela to requirements for everyone at the university. Just because Angela needs to complete both courses to get the degree does not mean it has to be the same for everyone else.

E is the correct response. The stimulus clearly states that once Angela finishes both experimental design and developmental psychology, she will have earned the degree. Hence, it follows that if she completes the developmental psychology course, she will have earned a degree in psychology.

gautrang · Answer

I think it should be E.

The arguments said that if A finishes both Exp and Dev course, she will earn the degree. However, it doesn't said Exp or Dev is required for the degree. It just may happen that these two are elective and she needs to complete her degree. Therefore i think answer D is wrong.

gurpreetsingh · Answer

Vote for E.

(D) Anyone who earns a degree in psychology from the university Angela attends will have completed the course in experimental design.

The author has mentioned that by giving exam Exp and dev , one can earn the degree of psychology. What if giving exam A and B also help someone earning the same degree?
PHD and MBBS both give doctoral degrees, do we have to give same exams?
This is just over generalization.
Moreover, what if these 2 subjects are the last 2 elective subjects? and not the core part of core-curriculum?
in that case others do not have to complete the exp design. This answer actually reverses the causal relationship.

(E) Once Angela completes the developmental psychology course, she will have earned a degree in psychology.

Since without Exp she can not complete dev course => she will have earned a degree after the course.

Comments welcome.

BlueRobin: I would suggest you to write the question properly and if possible on your first post do not ask your question, instead reply to the same post, this will certainly avoid prejudicial inclination towards any option.

rvgmat12 · Answer

From Powerscore:

In this stimulus, completing two courses will be sufficient for Angela to get a degree in psychology, and taking the course in experimental design first is necessary for someone taking the course in developmental psych. This means that if she takes the developmental psych course, then she must have already taken the experimental design course, and once both are completed she will have earned her degree. So, we can conclude that completing the developmental psych course will guarantee that she has earned the degree.

Answer A is incorrect because we don't know how many terms one course takes. We only know that next term is the earliest that she can take the prerequisite course, and so the term after that is the earliest that she can take the final required course. That course could be completed in one term, but not the next term.

Answer B is incorrect because there is no evidence about the relative ease of the two courses, just that one must be completed before the other is taken.

Answer C is incorrect because no information is given about prerequisites for experimental design, only for developmental psych. Perhaps there are some, but perhaps not.

Answer D is incorrect because we don't know about anyone other than Angela, and even in her case we don't know that any particular course is necessary to earn the degree, but only that those two courses are sufficient for her to earn the degree.

Answer E is the correct answer and matches our prephrase. Once she has completed the developmental psych course, we will know that she also completed the experimental design course (because it had to be done first), and therefore she will have completed the two courses which are, taken together, sufficient for her to earn her degree.

Ya2005 · Answer

What is the difference between option D and E which makes D incorrect??

AndrewN · Answer

Hello,  Ya2005 . The problem with answer choice (D) is that we have no idea what sort of curriculum a psychology major may have to follow to earn a degree. The passage tells us only what  Angela  needs to take. Perhaps a different student could take other courses to meet the same requirements and earn a psychology degree. Consider the following example of a four-year pathway to such a degree. Angela could have selected the  highlighted track  at the end.

I—Foundations    II—Select (3)    III—Select (3)    IV—Select (1)   
  Intro to Psychology  Neuroscience  Independent Study  Senior Seminar  
  Intro to Cognitive Science  Cognitive Psychology   Experimental Design    Developmental Psychology   
    Statistics  Clinical Psychology    
    Social Psychology  Interdisciplinary Psychology    
    Psychological Disorders  Behavioral Neuroscience     
Perhaps some other psychology major could have opted for a different combo at the end but walked away with the same degree. Thus, answer choice (D) looks awry from the first word:  anyone . Meanwhile, the passage tells us that, if we straighten out the first line,

This is exactly what (E) says. Compare:

Since we know that experimental design  must be completed before taking developmental psychology , then if Angela completes the latter, she will have completed both required courses and have earned her degree.

Good luck with your studies.

- Andrew

Soumyajit_G · Answer

My take: There is an assumption involved in Option D that "Experimental Design" is not an elective and is a mandatory course. Option E can be inferred without any assumption.

unraveled · Answer

On completing both the course in experimental design and the developmental psychology course, Angela will have earned a degree in psychology. Since experimental design, which must be completed before taking developmental psychology, will not be offered until next term, it will be at least two terms before Angela gets her psychology degree

If the statements above are all true, which one of the following must also be true?

(A) The developmental psychology course Angela needs to take  requires two terms to complete . - WRONG. Not necessarily true since we don't know about the exact requirements.

(B) The course in experimental design is an  easier course than  the course in developmental psychology. - WRONG. Irrelevant and absurd.

(C) There are  no prerequisites  for the course in experimental design. - WRONG. Not necessarily true.

(D)  Anyone  who earns a degree in psychology from the university Angela attends will have completed the course in experimental design. - WRONG. Just a small leap of faith and it all wrong.

(E) Once Angela completes the developmental psychology course, she will have earned a degree in psychology. - CORRECT. All correct. Without DP course, completing the degree is not possible.

Answer E.

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