LSAT 120 – Section 3 – Question 15

LSAT 120 - Section 3 - Question 15

October 2005

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QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT120 S3 Q15
+LR
Except +Exc
Resolve reconcile or explain +RRE
Causal Reasoning +CausR
A
1%
150
B
6%
157
C
88%
164
D
1%
154
E
4%
156
135
144
153
 +Medium 146.629 +SubsectionMedium

In a study, parents were asked to rate each television program that their children watched. The programs were rated for violent content on a scale of one to five, with “one” indicating no violence and “five” indicating a great deal. The number of times their children were disciplined in school was also recorded. Children who watched programs with an average violence rating of three or higher were 50 percent more likely to have been disciplined than other children.

"Surprising" Phenomenon
Why were children who watched programs with an average violence rating of “three” or higher 50 percent more likely to have been disciplined in school than other children?

Objective
The correct answer must be the only answer that doesn’t help to explain why children who watched television programs with a violence rating of “three” or higher were 50 percent more likely to be disciplined in school. The correct answer choice could fail to address the relationship between the violence levels of television programs and the rate at which children who watch them are disciplined in school or could provide information that only makes the phenomenon more confusing.

A
Children who are excited by violent action programs on television tend to become bored with schoolwork and to express their boredom in an unacceptable fashion.
Children excited by violent action are probably more likely to watch more violent television programs than other children. In turn, they’re more likely to become bored with their schoolwork and express their boredom in unacceptable ways that can be disciplined in school.
B
When parents watch violent programs on television with their children, those children become more likely to regard antisocial behavior as legitimate.
Children who watch violent programs with their parents are probably more likely to watch violent programs with violence ratings of “three” or higher. Therefore, these children are more likely to exhibit antisocial behavior in school and be disciplined for it.
C
Parents who rated their children’s television viewing low on violence had become desensitized to the violence on television by watching too much of it.
(C) is silent on the subject of children’s discipline or behavior, so it fails to offer any connection between violence ratings and the rate at which children are disciplined in school. It just comments on how some parents rate the violence levels of programs.
D
Children learn from violent programs on television to disrespect society’s prohibitions of violence and, as a result, are more likely than other children to disrespect the school disciplinary codes.
If this is true, then children who watch programs with an average violence rating of “three” or higher are more likely to learn to disrespect society’s prohibitions of violence and disregard school disciplinary codes, resulting in them being disciplined more frequently in school.
E
Parents who do not allow their children to watch programs with a high level of violence are more likely than other parents to be careful about other aspects of their children’s behavior.
If this is true, then children who aren’t allowed to watch highly violent television programs are probably more likely than other children to respect various disciplinary rules at school, resulting in them being disciplined less frequently at school.

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