rhine29388 wrote:
farend wrote:
Toddlers are not being malicious when they bite people. For example, a child may want a toy, and feel that the person he or she bites is preventing him or her from having it.
The situation as described above most closely conforms to which one of the following generalizations?
(A) Biting people is sometimes a way for toddlers to try to solve problems.
(B) Toddlers sometimes engage in biting people in order to get attention from adults.
(C) Toddlers mistakenly believe that biting people is viewed as acceptable behavior by adults.
(D) Toddlers do not recognize that by biting people they often thwart their own ends.
(E) Resorting to biting people is in some cases an effective way for toddlers to get what they want.
can someone please provide the detailed OE for the given question
The whole argument is based on the word "malicious". The argument states that they donot always have the intention to harm the people. Then it given an example where a child wants a toy and is biting the people who are preventing him/her to get the toy. So, it means he is biting the people just to get a toy.
Now looking at the options :
(A) Biting people is sometimes a way for toddlers to try to solve problems. --> As per our pre-thinking. Hence, Correct.
(B) Toddlers sometimes engage in biting people in order to get attention from adults. --> Whether they are biting to get attention or something else. We don't know. neither the argument nor the example states that. hence, Incorrect.
(C) Toddlers mistakenly believe that biting people is viewed as acceptable behavior by adults. --> Again, no support in the passage for this point. -- INCORRECT
(D) Toddlers do not recognize that by biting people they often thwart their own ends. --> How?? Do we know if biting is going to harm toddlers only? -- INCORRECT
(E) Resorting to biting people is in some cases an effective way for toddlers to get what they want. --> Again we are not sure whether they actually get what they want. We are given that they bite people to try getting what they want. So, its effectiveness is not clear. -- INCORRECT.
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