Locating a detail the passage states directly — philosophy and psychology passages

CAT has tested this idea 11 times across 7 papers, from 2017 to 2023. Solve one, and the others are the same method with different numbers or wording, which is why repeated concepts are the most efficient thing to practise.

Question	What it asks	Answer
CAT 2017 Slot 2 · VARC Q20	typewriters and surveillance; stated reason some governments still use them	D
CAT 2020 Slot 2 · VARC Q17	theories of aggression; the three variables used to categorise the theories	C
CAT 2020 Slot 3 · VARC Q7	review of bregman's humankind; how bregman views the collapse of civilisations	C
CAT 2021 Slot 2 · VARC Q2	the scandal of knowledge; closest restatement of the 'things-in-themselves' line	B
CAT 2021 Slot 2 · VARC Q3	the scandal of knowledge; what the last paragraph says our confidence depends on	D
CAT 2021 Slot 3 · VARC Q12	pinker's language instinct; the point on which pinker and chomsky may disagree	B
CAT 2021 Slot 3 · VARC Q3	the unconscious, 1700-1900; closest restatement of the line on enriched language	A
CAT 2022 Slot 2 · VARC Q8	philosophy of the social sciences; name the two overlapping 'characterisations' in para one	B
CAT 2023 Slot 3 · VARC Q13	defining romantic aesthetics; what aesthetics meant for the romantics	B
CAT 2023 Slot 3 · VARC Q15	defining romanticism; the stated main difficulty in studying it	D
CAT 2023 Slot 3 · VARC Q16	romanticism studies; why recent work avoids a single definition, time or place	D

Part of RC · Humanities & Philosophy (54 questions since 2017).