Answer Choices
A) appeared in conjunction with related visual images.
consisted of words intended to evoke emotional reactions.
included words related to a central theme or topic.
made use of relatively straightforward words.
Explanation for Question 15 From the Reading Section on the 2018 April Sat
Hey guys. So question 15 says according to the passage, 2 one characteristic characteristic of the words listed. 3 Oh my goodness. The word lists using the study was that each list, 4 what so that opening. Um, 5 so let's go back to the passage. Let's find where they're talking about the 6 word list and how these were describing a characteristic of all of them. 7 Um, and let's just go back to like where they're designing the study. 8 So 20 says to conduct a study, 9 they use this group of people. Okay. 10 So let's get down to here where it says the scientists or participants 11 wordless. Okay. Now we're talking about more or less. So it should be somewhere 12 here. Then remove the list and test the subjects and words that hadn't, 13 hadn't been included. Each list invoked a so-called critical alert. 14 Okay. So each list now we're getting a characteristic, 15 every single list. 16 When it says each list, each list invoke the so-called critical lure, 17 a word commonly associated with the words in the list, 18 but that did not actually appear on the list. So every list has this 19 word that's commonly associated with them, 20 but they're not appear in the list. Um, 21 the word sleep, for example, might be falsely remembered as Paragon lists that include 22 the words, pillow, dovey, and nap. 23 All the participants in both groups fell for lures. 24 So all the words in each, let us have to have a similar theme 25 to one another. It seems to be what it's saying. And then there's t...