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LSAT-Section-1-Logical-Reasoning – Section One : Logical Reasoning

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Question 109

Studies of the reliability of eyewitness identifications show little correlation between the accuracy of a witness's account and the confidence the witness has in the account. Certain factors can increase or undermine a witness's confidence without altering the accuracy of the identification. Therefore, police officers are advised to disallow suspect lineups in which witnesses can hear one another identifying suspects.

Which one of the following is a principle underlying the advice given to police officers?

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    The confidence people have in what they remember having seen is affected by their awareness of what other people claim to have seen.
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    Unless an eyewitness is confronted with more than one suspect at a time, the accuracy of his or her statements cannot be trusted.
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    If several eyewitnesses all identify the same suspect in a lineup, it is more likely that the suspect committed the crime than if only one eyewitness identifies the suspect.
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    Police officers are more interested in the confidence witnesses have when testifying than in the accuracy of that testimony.
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    The accuracy of an eyewitness account is doubtful if the eyewitness contradicts what other eyewitnesses claim to have seen.
Question 110

All actions are motivated by self-interest, since any action that is apparently altruistic can be described in terms of self-interest. For example, helping someone can be described in terms of self-interest: the motivation is hope for a reward or other personal benefit to be bestowed as a result of the helping action.

Which one of the following most accurately describes an error in the argument's reasoning?

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    The term "self-interest" is allowed to shift in meaning over the course of the argument.
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    The argument takes evidence showing merely that its conclusion could be true to constitute evidence showing that the conclusion is in fact true.
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    The argument does not explain what is meant by "reward" and "personal benefit."
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    The argument ignores the possibility that what is taken to be necessary for a certain interest to be a motivation actually suffices to show that that interest is a motivation.
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    The argument depends for its appeal only on the emotional content of the example cited
Question 111

In the decade from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, large corporations were rocked by mergers, reengineering, and downsizing. These events significantly undermined employees' job security. Surprisingly, however, employees' perception of their own job security hardly changed over that period. Fifty-eight percent of employees surveyed in 1984 and 55 percent surveyed in 1994 stated that their own jobs were very secure.

Each of the following contributes to an explanation of the surprising survey results described above EXCEPT:

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    A large number of the people in both surveys work in small companies that were not affected by mergers, reengineering, and downsizing.
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    Employees who feel secure in their jobs tend to think that the jobs of others are secure.
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    The corporate downsizing that took place during this period had been widely anticipated for several years before the mid-1980s.
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    Most of the major downsizing during this period was completed within a year after the first survey.
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    In the mid-1990s, people were generally more optimistic about their lives, even in the face of hardship, than they were a decade before.