A group of children of various ages was read stories in which people caused harm, some of those people doing so intentionally, and some accidentally. When asked about appropriate punishments for those who had caused harm, the younger children, unlike the older ones, assigned punishments that did not vary according to whether the harm was done intentionally or accidentally. Younger children, then, do not regard people’s intentions as relevant to punishment.

Which of the following, if true, would most seriously weaken the conclusion above?

(A) In interpreting these stories, the listeners had to draw on a relatively mature sense of human psychology in order to tell whether harm was produced intentionally or accidentally.
    

(B) In these stories, the severity of the harm produced was clearly stated.

(C) Younger children are as likely to produce harm unintentionally as are older children.

(D) The older children assigned punishment in a way that closely resembled the way adults had assigned punishment in a similar experiment.

(E) The younger children assigned punishments that varied according to the severity of the harm done by the agents in the stories.

答案是A，题目能看懂，A选项有点模糊，也推不出来。请教NN,怎么通过A削弱的？谢谢！

年级小的人不根据是不是有意来给于处罚

结论，年级小的人不认为是否有意和处罚有什么关联

做出这个结论要有个前提，那就是这些年纪小的人确实知道什么是有意什么是偶

然，否则如果只是他们不能分辨什么是有意什么是偶然，才不根据是不是有意来

进行处罚，那么结论就被削弱。

A：这个答案我个人觉的出的不是很好，有点歧义。但是他的意思是，听故事的

人会对人的心里有一定的分析判断什么是有意什么是无意，而年级小的人是不具

备这样的能力的。所以有削弱

但是我觉得A说的listeners会有包括年级小的人的嫌疑。这样会有支持作用

B和E，刚好是支持结论的

C和D对结论没有影响。

矮子里选高个儿，只能选A，但是对于A保留意见

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