Sentence Insertion: Social Learning

CAT 2022 Slot 3 · VARC · Hard · Verbal Ability

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There is a sentence that is missing in the paragraph below. Look at the paragraph and decide in which blank (option 1, 2, 3, or 4) the following sentence would best fit.

Sentence: When people socially learn from each other, they often learn without understanding why what they're copying-the beliefs and behaviours and technologies and know-how-works.

Paragraph: (1). The dual-inheritance theory ....says....that inheritance is itself an evolutionary system. It has variation. What makes us a new kind of animal, and so different and successful as a species, is we rely heavily on social learning, to the point where socially acquired information is effectively a second line of inheritance, the first being our genes.... (2). People tend to home in on who seems to be the smartest or most successful person around, as well as what everybody seems to be doing-the majority of people have something worth learning. (3). When you repeat this process over time, you can get, around the world, cultural packages-beliefs or behaviours or technology or other solutions-that are adapted to the local conditions. People have different psychologies, effectively. (4).

  1. A.

    Option 1

  2. B.

    Option 2

  3. C.

    Option 3

  4. D.

    Option 4

Answer

C

Explanation

Option 3 fits best because the preceding text talks about blindly copying what successful people or the majority do, and the missing sentence explains that this copying happens without understanding why it works, which leads directly to the next sentence describing 'When you repeat this process over time...'.

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