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Re: RC Question 10
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ID Information
Answer expected in lines/paragraph:
Tough to find the "proof window" here, since both passages are about music, thus the term is mentioned several times in each passage.
Any prephrase?
As it relates to the main disconnect between the two passages, each passage related music to possible survival value (adaptive value).
Correct answer:
B
Answer choice analysis:
A) Nothing in Psg A about "bonding"
B) Lines 1-3 in Psg A and Lines 32-37 in Psg B relate music to human emotion.
C) Nothing in Psg B about "neurological RESEARCH". It speaks in line 60 about the neurological BASIS of mother-infant emotional bonding and says that this basis essentially is the same as the capacity to make/enjoy music. But describing the neurological basis of something isn't the same thing as "relating [that thing] to neurological research". If you're thinking, "But didn't we need to do neurological research in order to KNOW the neurological basis?" Yes. This answer has some support, but it isn't as strong and explicit as that for (B).
D) Nothing in Psg A about "helpless infants"
E) Nothing in Psg B about "using tools" to make sounds.
Takeaway/Pattern: When the question stem says that the passage "mentions / states / refers" to something, it almost always means EXPLICITLY. There are sometimes appealing trap answers that we think we could support inferentially, but they still lose out to explicit textual references.
#officialexplanation
ID Information
Answer expected in lines/paragraph:
Tough to find the "proof window" here, since both passages are about music, thus the term is mentioned several times in each passage.
Any prephrase?
As it relates to the main disconnect between the two passages, each passage related music to possible survival value (adaptive value).
Correct answer:
B
Answer choice analysis:
A) Nothing in Psg A about "bonding"
B) Lines 1-3 in Psg A and Lines 32-37 in Psg B relate music to human emotion.
C) Nothing in Psg B about "neurological RESEARCH". It speaks in line 60 about the neurological BASIS of mother-infant emotional bonding and says that this basis essentially is the same as the capacity to make/enjoy music. But describing the neurological basis of something isn't the same thing as "relating [that thing] to neurological research". If you're thinking, "But didn't we need to do neurological research in order to KNOW the neurological basis?" Yes. This answer has some support, but it isn't as strong and explicit as that for (B).
D) Nothing in Psg A about "helpless infants"
E) Nothing in Psg B about "using tools" to make sounds.
Takeaway/Pattern: When the question stem says that the passage "mentions / states / refers" to something, it almost always means EXPLICITLY. There are sometimes appealing trap answers that we think we could support inferentially, but they still lose out to explicit textual references.
#officialexplanation
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