Psychologist: In an experiment, an actor was introduced as an academic expert to an audience of professional educators and then gave a lecture that had been designed to sound academic but to be devoid of substance. However, the lecture was well delivered and full of interesting neologisms. Afterward, most audience members said the lecture was insightful and informative. This shows that the belief that someone is an expert predisposes people to accept whatever that person says.
To evaluate the strength of the psychologist's argument, it would be most helpful to conduct a similar experiment in which
(A) the same actor gave a similar lecture to the same audience, and afterward the audience members were asked to explain the substance of the lecture
(B) another actor delivered the same lecture in a similar manner to an audience that has been told that the lecture was designed to be devoid of substance
(C) another actor used a dull, awkward delivery to give a similar lecture to the same audience but was not introduced beforehand
(D) a real academic expert gave a more substantive lecture to the same audience
(E) the same actor gave the same lecture in the same way to a similar audience after having been introduced as a beginning student of the topic
Which of the following most logically completes the passage?
All the information that high school students are required to learn is becoming available in an electric form that is accessible through computers. For this reason, some people have argued that traditional means of schooling are no longer necessary: students do not need a teacher as a repository of knowledge, but rather can seek out information themselves. There is little reason, however, to think that teachers will be replaced with computers any time soon, because________.
A Computers are much cost effective than teachers.
B Many teachers are becoming familiar with new computer technology and using it to increase their knowledge.
C When students seek out information unsupervised, they often do not seek out what they are required to learn.
D Students are often much more proficient than their teachers at using computers.
E Information accessible through computers is often much more up-to-date than that available through traditional sources such as text books.