Multiple choice

Directions: The given passage is followed by several inferences which can be drawn from the facts stated in the passage. You have to examine each inference separately in the context of the passage and decide upon its degree of truth or falsity.

In film and videotape, it is possible to induce the viewers to project their feelings onto the characters on the screen. In one study, when a camera shot of a baby in a crib was shown, the audience thought the woman's face was registering happiness. Inferences: I. The expression on the woman's face was, in actuality blank. II. A camera shot of a baby in a crib provoked feelings of happiness to the audience.

  1. If only inference I follows

  2. If only inference II follows

  3. If neither inference I nor II follows

  4. If both the inferences follow

  5. If either one, but not both, follows
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A Correct answer
Explanation

The audience is projecting their own feelings onto the characters in the picture. Unless feelings of the audience are of happiness, they can't project happiness onto the woman's face. Hence, I can be inferred.

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