What are the Cause and their Effects?

Cause and effect are complementary to each other as the cause occurs so it’s an effect. In reasoning, a cause event often leads to a negative or positive event. Questions are designed to test the analytical and logical ability of a candidate. So, in short, A cause is the logical and or scientific reasoning of an event that has occurred and the effects of this cause are consequences of the event.  

For every question, there will be two statements and students have to decide whether the cause is independent or a common cause and its effect. For a cause to be valid it must be sufficient or necessary. The necessary condition for an event to occur is a cause, which supplements an event to occur. Necessary conditions for an event to take place is the condition without which the event will not occur.

From the above image, it’s clear that if the application is slow then the effect and causes are many for the application to be slow.

Types of causes and their Effects : 

1) Immediate cause:

An immediate cause is a type of cause that has occurred immediately. It immediately precedes the effect. In other words, immediate causes are the most proximate in time to the effect.

Example :

Suppose a driver is driving his car. He was drunk and he crashed his car and died. 
The immediate cause was the death due to the crash while the proximate cause was the drink taken.

 

2) Principal  cause:

The principal cause is the main cause responsible for any event. An immediate cause may or may not be the principal cause. The principal cause is the main reason behind its effectiveness.

Example:

Rohit does not study therefore he failed in exams.

Here, failure is the effect and the cause here is not studying. 

 

3) Independent cause:

This is the cause related to any independent events in the question. Independent causes do not have a direct or indirect relationship with the effect given. The effect in the case may be caused by a third unmentioned event.

Example:

I was tired of working all day so I went to bed early. 

Here, working all day is the cause, and going to bed early is the effect but working all day is an independent cause.

 

Tips and Tricks to solve the questions on Cause and Effect :

 

• Tip 1: Principal and immediate cause have a similarity but there is a slight difference in that principal cause is the main cause while the immediate cause is the proximate with its effect.

 

• Tip 2: If both events are in the present perfect tense, then it cannot be decided which can be antecedent to whom. Then candidates have to check for any common connection between the statements.

 

• Tip 3: If the first statement is in the present perfect tense and statement two in the future tense, then statement 1 will be antecedent to statement 2 and that is why statement 2 cannot be the cause of statement 1.

 

• Tip 4: If the first statement is in present perfect and statement two in present continuous, then statement 1 should have occurred before statement 2 and that is why statement 2 cannot be the cause of statement 2.