LSAT 149 – Section 3 – Question 09

LSAT 149 - Section 3 - Question 09

December 2017

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Question QuickView	Type	Tags	Answer Choices	Curve	Question Difficulty	Psg/Game/S Difficulty	Explanation
PT149 S3 Q09	+LR	Strengthen +Streng Fill in the blank +Fill Causal Reasoning +CausR Analogy +An	A 1% 150 B 0% 145 C 95% 163 D 0% 152 E 4% 156	124 133 143	+Easiest	147.456 +SubsectionMedium

As regards memory, the brain responds best to repeated patterns, such as the melodic and rhythmic patterns of music. This is why we can remember long strings of information or text, which would normally be impossible to memorize, when they are put to music. Given that music aids memory, it might seem that funny jokes would be easy to remember, since, like music, they normally elicit an emotional response in us. However, jokes are usually very difficult to remember, since _______.

Summarize Argument

The author claims funny jokes are difficult to remember, even though music and funny jokes both elicit emotional responses and music aids memory because of its repeated patterns.

Notable Assumptions

The author assumes there’s some difference between music and funny jokes that allows people to remember music more easily. This means assuming funny jokes either lack the repeated patterns of music or that they have some other characteristic, which music doesn’t have, that makes them difficult to remember regardless.

jokes, unlike music, always have content that is verbal or at least clearly symbolic

This is a difference between jokes and music, but it doesn’t explain why jokes are difficult to remember. The author says repeated patterns make something easy to remember, not that verbal or symbolic content makes something difficult to remember.

some successful jokes are short and pithy, whereas others are long and involved

This doesn’t say funny jokes have no repeated patterns. There’s no indication a long, involved joke can’t also have repeated patterns that make it easy to remember.

jokes work not by conforming to repeated patterns but by breaking them

This is a difference between jokes and music that explains why jokes are more difficult to remember. It implies funny jokes lack the adherence to repeated patterns that makes music an aid to memory.

for most people, certain memories elicit a strong emotional response

This suggests remembering a funny joke can produce an emotional response, but it draws no contrast between jokes and music that explains why funny jokes are usually harder to remember.

people can hold in short-term memory only a few chunks of unpatterned information at a time

This helps explain why repeated patterns make something easy to remember, but it draws no contrast between music and funny jokes. In particular, it doesn’t say jokes are unpatterned information.

LSAT 149 – Section 3 – Question 09

LSAT 149 - Section 3 - Question 09

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