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CAT 2023 Odd one out — Previous Year Question

Year

CAT 2023

Section

Verbal

Topic

Odd one out

Difficulty

Medium

Question

Slot-1

Five jumbled up sentences (labelled 1,2,3,41,2,3,4 and 5 ), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.

  1. Having an appreciation for the workings of another person's mind is considered a prerequisite for natural language acquisition, strategic social interaction, reflexive thought, and moral judgment.
  2. It is a 'theory of mind' though some scholars prefer to call it 'mentalizing' or 'mindreading', which is important for the development of one's cognitive abilities.
  3. Though we must speculate about its evolutionary origin, we do have indications that the capacity evolved sometime in the last few million years.
  4. This capacity develops from early beginnings in the first year of life to the adult's fast and often effortless understanding of others' thoughts, feelings, and intentions.
  5. One of the most fascinating human capacities is the ability to perceive and interpret other people's behaviour in terms of their mental states.

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