#17 - Teachers should not do anything to cause their

[lina2020]

Hi PowerScore,

I didn't see an explanation listed for this question on the forum so thought I would create one! I recognized this question as a Justify because of the "if" in the question stem but I had a lot of trouble diagramming it and was never able to connect any of the terms to determine which variables are repeated and which one is new in the conclusion. Would you mind diagramming out the full stimulus and explaining your step by step thought process in terms of attacking this question? Thank you in advance!

[Rachael Wilkenfeld]

Hi Lina,

Great job identifying this as a justify question. Here's how I'd diagram it.

P: Teachers shouldn't perform an action that would cause students to lose respect
P: Students know when people are trying to hide what they don't know.

C: Teacher doesn't know answer shouldn't pretend to know answer.

We need to justify that conclusion that the teacher shouldn't pretend to know the answer. Pretending to know an answer sounds a lot like trying to hide what they don't know. So, we just need to connect the first premise---that teachers shouldn't cause students to lose respect.

That's what answer choice (E) does for us.

Students sense teachers lying students lose respect for teacher.

With that answer choice we can link the teachers not knowing the answer to the students losing respect for them if they pretend to know the answer.

Hope that helps!
Rachael