Explanation for Question 16 From the Reading Section on the 2018 May Sat
Okay. Question number 16 is up next, 2 which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question for 3 call that the previous question number 15 is asking us about where there's going 4 to be the greatest increase in brain activity. 5 Um, and we found that the correct answer here is choice B real people 6 who were childhood friends of the subjects. 7 So we're looking for evidence that that's going to generate a high level of 8 brain activity. When we have a close personal connection, 9 um, of the protagonist involved looking at our answer choices, 10 um, lines 11 to 12 that's choice, 11 a, um, in one set of situations, 12 Peter simply received information about both characters. 13 This isn't giving us much information about the findings. 14 This is just the experimental setup. So that's out choice B was lines 56 15 to 62. However, this time the characters involved in the scenarios are ranked 16 in three categories with different degrees of personal relevance. 17 So this is kind of setting up the main binding, 18 but it doesn't reflect the main finding itself. 19 Rather the actual main finding comes in the following section, 20 um, which is answer choice C in lines, 21 62 to 64 as predicted the activation was indeed proportionally modulating 22 by the degree of relevance, the characters described. In other words here, 23 um, the more relevant person was a Mar more Elvin, 24 a character was to the participant. 25 Um, the more brain activity we actually see...