LSAT 140 – Section 2 – Question 02

LSAT 140 - Section 2 - Question 02

December 2013

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QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT140 S2 Q02
+LR
+Exp
Most strongly supported +MSS
Causal Reasoning +CausR
Sampling +Smpl
A
0%
151
B
4%
153
C
92%
164
D
1%
155
E
2%
159
129
138
148
 +Easier 149.441 +SubsectionMedium

Depression is a serious problem for residents of nursing homes. However, a recent study has found that residents who developed personal bonds with pets had significantly lower rates of depression than did residents who did not develop personal bonds with pets.

Summary

Depression is a serious problem in nursing homes. However, a recent study found that residents who formed bonds with pets had much lower rates of depression than those who didn't.

Strongly Supported Conclusions

Encouraging nursing home residents to have pets could potentially help to lower the rate of depression in nursing homes.

Depression in nursing homes might in part stem from residents’ lack of companionship.

A
Nursing-home residents are more subject to depression than any other individuals.

Unsupported. The stimulus tells us that depression is a serious problem for residents of nursing homes. However, it does not compare rates of depression among nursing home residents to rates of depression among anyone else.

B
The best method for helping a nursing-home resident to overcome depression is to provide access to a pet.

Unsupported. Although forming bonds with pets significantly lowers rates of depression among nursing home residents, we do not know that this is the best way for residents to overcome depression.

C
High rates of depression among nursing-home residents may result at least in part from a lack of companionship.

Strongly supported. Residents who formed bonds with pets had much lower rates of depression than those who didn’t, and bonds with pets are a kind of companionship. So, rates of depression may result in part from a lack of companionship.

D
Animal companionship is essential for psychological well-being.

Unsupported. We do not know that animal companionship is essential for psychological well-being simply because animal companionship could help alleviate depression in some circumstances.

E
Allowing free access to pets in nursing homes would eliminate problems relating to depression.

Unsupported. Allowing free access to pets could alleviate rates of depression in nursing homes, but we have no way to know whether it would entirely eliminate all problems relating to depression.

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