Explanation for Question 18 From the Reading Section on the 2019 May Sat
Question 18 asks the conclusion best drawn from the results of the booklets city 2 governments campaign is that people are what, so let's look back in the passage 3 here at their discussion of why the second campaign was successful and see if 4 we can find an answer for this question. So if we look back 5 at the last paragraph, which does discuss the success of that second initiative, 6 it says the assumption underlying the new strategy was the conservation would improve. 7 If the city created a greater scope for social rewards and punishment, 8 that helped to reassure that people, people that achieving the public good continued 9 access to water was likely this time. The assumption was correct. 10 So basically what they're saying here is that they assumed if they would reward 11 people for good behavior and punish people for bad behavior, 12 that would encourage them to do the right thing here. 13 And so we're just looking for an answer choice that 14 addresses the effectiveness of this idea of rewards and punishments. 15 So if you look back at the answer choices, 16 we can just go through them. So answer choice a says more responsive to 17 praise than to punishment in most situations. 18 So answer choice a is going to be incorrect in the passage. 19 They referred to praise and punishment as a whole and not two separate entities. 20 So the system for it to be effective needs to have both, 21 and one isn't more effective than the other. So answer choice, 22 it would be incorr...