Answer Choices
A) They can interfere with a person’s deductive reasoning ability.
They correlate with attempts to remember large amounts of information.
They are more commonly associated with events in the distant rather than the recent past.
They can have consequences that are genuinely damaging.
Explanation for Questions 12, 13 From the Reading Section on the 2018 April Sat
Hey guys. So question 12 asks us which statement about false memories can be 2 reasonably inferred from the passage. So this is going to be a joint one 3 where we have quotes to deal with. So what it wants to do is 4 not even look at the answer choices. I just wants to go back and 5 read these lines and find the quote is dealing with an implication about 6 false memories. Something that false memories do. 7 So let's start with lines of one to six. The phenomenon of false memories 8 is common to everybody. Um, 9 Susan, let me move this over so I can use my, the phenomenon of 10 false memories is common to everybody. The party you're certain you attended in high 11 school, say when you were actually home with the flu, 12 but some people have told you about over the years, that's made your way 13 into your memory cache. 14 So maybe the implication of this one is that false memories are common. 15 Now that is maybe a potentially a potential implication of it. 16 So let's put like a, maybe line next to this and let's come back 17 and check later. So good lines. Six to eight. 18 Now six to eight, say false memories can sometimes be a mere curiosity, 19 but other times they have real implications. 20 Okay. So this is telling us that another thing about false memories is that 21 they might have real implications for people. So again, 22 this is another, um, 23 maybe it doesn't really tell us what though the implications would be in this 24 line, false memories. What statement about f...