Self-study
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Summary
In a party game, Person A steps out of the room, believing that Person B is sharing a recent dream with the rest of the group. Person A comes back and tries to reconstruct the dream by asking yes-or-no questions. But in reality, no dream was shared. The group just answers based on an arbitrary rule. Surprisingly, Person A usually makes up a dream story that is both coherent and clever, even though the “real” dream was never explained.
Strongly Supported Conclusions
People tend to try to make sense out of information, even when there is no sense behind it.
The belief that something is coherent and meaningful can cause someone to infuse that thing with coherence and meaning.
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This is strongly supported. Person A presumes that the dream has order and coherence, even though there is not really any dream at all. Nevertheless, because Person A presumes this, she then imbues her own construct of the dream with order and coherence.
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This is unsupported. The stimulus is not drawing a comparison between these two scenarios. Also, Person A does attempt to make sense out of the arbitrary answers that are given to her.
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Dreams are often ████ ███████████ ██ ██████ ███ █████ ███████ ████████ ███████████
This is unsupported. The stimulus tells us nothing about the structure of dreams. In fact, there is no dream related in the stimulus at all.
d
Interpreting another person's █████ ████████ ████ ███ ██████████ ███ █████ ██ █ ████████ ██████████
This is unsupported. Person A is not interpreting Person B’s dream; she is simply trying to reconstruct it. Also, again, there is not actually any dream related by Person B at all.
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People often invent ██████ ███ ████████ ███████ ██ ███████ █████ ████████ ██ █████ ███████
This is unsupported. Person A may be inventing a coherent story, but she is not trying to explain her behavior to other people. Rather, she is trying to reconstruct Person B’s supposed dream.