For newborns of age four to six weeks whose mothers have been the prim

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For newborns of age four to six weeks whose mothers have been the primary caregivers, the following is true: When the newborns are crying due to hunger or other similar discomfort, merely hearing the mother’s voice will lead to a temporary halt in crying, while the voices of others do not have this effect.

Which one of the following is most reasonably supported by the information above?

Which one of the following is most reasonably supported by the information above?

(A) Babies more easily learn to recognize the voices of their mothers than the voices of other people.

(B) A mother’s voice is the first thing a baby learns to recognize.

(C) Babies associate the voice of the primary caregiver with release from discomfort.

(D) Often only a primary caregiver can provide comfort to a newborn.

(E) Discomfort in newborns is best relieved by hearing the mother’s voice.

ArunSharma12 · Answer

(A) Babies more easily learn to recognize the voices of their mothers than the voices of other people.
 Babies' learning is not discussed within the passage

(B) A mother’s voice is the first thing a baby learns to recognize.
 same as option A, this is out of scope for this passage

(C) Babies associate the voice of the primary caregiver with release from discomfort.
 This is supported by the passage

(D) Often only a primary caregiver can provide comfort to a newborn.
 It is not supported by the passage

(E) Discomfort in newborns is best relieved by hearing the mother’s voice.
 whether this is best option to relieve the discomfort? this does not have to be true and passage does not say so 
Ans: C

Krishh9119 · Answer

For newborns of age four to six weeks whose mothers have been the primary caregivers, the following is true: When the newborns are crying due to hunger or other similar discomfort, merely hearing the mother’s voice will lead to a temporary halt in crying, while the voices of others do not have this effect.

Which one of the following is most reasonably supported by the information above?

Which one of the following is most reasonably supported by the information above?

(A) Babies more easily learn to recognize the voices of their mothers than the voices of other people.
 No, The argument does not discuss about whose voice is recognized by the Baby first.

(B) A mother’s voice is the first thing a baby learns to recognize.
 No, The argument does not discuss about whose voice is recognized by the Baby first.

(C) Babies associate the voice of the primary caregiver with release from discomfort.
 This clearly speaks about the primary care giver and how their voice help's child release from discomfort.

(D) Often only a primary caregiver can provide comfort to a newborn.
 The argument only discusses about ' temporary halt in crying(due to hunger or other similar discomfort)'.
Note: If primary caregiver were comforting, then the child should stop crying , BUT here the child just halts crying.

(E) Discomfort in newborns is best relieved by hearing the mother’s voice.
 We are clearly discussing about mother's who are primary care givers. The child may not recognize her mother's voice if she is not a primary care giver

Our answer is C.

gmatter923 · Answer

IMO,  its C  as Babies associate the voice of the primary caregiver with release from discomfort. In question stem, this primary caregiver happens to be the mother. Thus, whenever a baby hear mother's voice(Primary caregiver), there is a release in discomfort. 
All other options show a relationship bw just mother's voice and baby's discomfort independent of mother being a primary caregiver.

MrSengupta · Answer

The answer is (C) . Let us analyze the argument :

Pr1: Mothers primary caregiver for babies
Pr2: Whenever they hear the voice of their mothers, then they become quiet which does not happen for other voices.

Which sums up: that the voice of primary caregivers soothes the baby . This is aptly stated in Option (C)

exc4libur · Answer

=newborn's halt crying
=after hearing primary caregivers' voice
=while other voices dont have this effect

infer
ans (C) we can infer this from the passage.

chaitralirr · Answer

For newborns of age four to six weeks whose mothers have been the primary caregivers, the following is true: When the newborns are crying due to hunger or other similar discomfort, merely hearing the mother’s voice will lead to a temporary halt in crying, while the voices of others do not have this effect.

Which one of the following is most reasonably supported by the information above?

Stimulus: for new borns of age 4 to 6 seeks whose mothers have been primary caregivers. When the new born is crying due to hunger or any other discomfort merely hearing the mothers voice will lead to a temp halt in crying. IMO E

Which one of the following is most reasonably supported by the information above?

(A) Babies more easily learn to recognize the voices of their mothers than the voices of other people.

(B) A mother’s voice is the first thing a baby learns to recognize.

(C) Babies associate the voice of the primary caregiver with release from discomfort.

(D) Often only a primary caregiver can provide comfort to a newborn.

(E) Discomfort in newborns is best relieved by hearing the mother’s voice.

AKtilul · Answer

I understand why C is the correct answer , looking closer to the argument there is still a nuance that for me will discredit the answer in a real Gmat scenario. The answer state : Babies associate the voice of the primary caregiver with release from discomfort. In the text we can see the keyword " temporarily" in this context : merely hearing the mother’s voice will lead to a  temporary  halt in crying, while the voices of others do not have this effect. therefore it will be easy for a corrector to claim that the temporary effect of the matter means that the pains is not release because its just temporary. It could be assumed many different assumptions of why the baby stop crying but nothing regarding a release of the confort since it's temporary. on the other hand , : Babies more easily learn to recognize the voices of their mothers than the voices of other people. Even if the learning is not the matter of the text. It is closer to assume that "in all cases" babies learn to recognize their mother voice because no other voice had this "temporary" effect. What are you thought in this opinion ?

miag · Answer

Hi,

I would like to highlight a couple of points here to help clarify: 
- The option choice is not saying that the discomfort is gone permanently, it only talks about how the baby associates mother's voice with relief from discomfort.
- A introduces an unsupported claim about ease of learning, which is beyond the data.

Hope this helps!

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