soniedarshan wrote:
If a doctor gives a patient only a few options for lifestyle modification, the patient is more likely to adhere to the doctor’s advice than if the doctor gives the patient many options.
Which one of the following most accurately expresses the principle illustrated above?
(A) People are especially likely to ignore the advice they get from doctors if they are confused about that advice.
(B) People dislike calculating the best of a variety of choices unless they can see a clear difference among the benefits that would result from each choice.
(C) The tendency people have to alter their behavior varies inversely with the number of alternatives available to them for behavior modification.
(D) Most people are unlikely to follow their doctor’s advice unless they can vividly imagine the consequences of not following the advice.
(E) In getting good results, the clarity with which a doctor instructs a patient is of equal importance to the accuracy of the doctor’s diagnosis on which that instruction is based.
Which one of the following most accurately expresses the principle illustrated above?
(A) People are especially likely to ignore the advice they get from doctors if they are confused about that advice.
(B) People dislike calculating the best of a variety of choices unless they can see a clear difference among the benefits that would result from each choice.
(C) The tendency people have to alter their behavior varies inversely with the number of alternatives available to them for behavior modification.
(D) Most people are unlikely to follow their doctor’s advice unless they can vividly imagine the consequences of not following the advice.
(E) In getting good results, the clarity with which a doctor instructs a patient is of equal importance to the accuracy of the doctor’s diagnosis on which that instruction is based.
We have causal relationship here:
- Doctor gives only few options --> more likely to adhere to doctor's advice
- Doctor give more options --> less likely to follow advice
C provides a tendency that "people have to alter their behavior varies inversely with the number of alternatives available to them for behavior modification" or we can put it in diagram:
- More options --> less likely to follow
- Less options --> more likely to follow
C describes what states in the premise. Therefore, C is the correct answer choice.