LSAT 149 | Section 3 | Logical Reasoning: Q9

LR Question 9 Explanation

QUESTION TEXT: As regards memory, the brain responds best to repeated…

QUESTION TYPE: Complete the Argument

CONCLUSION: Jokes are hard to remember

REASONING: Jokes don’t involve repeated patterns [predicted reasoning]

ANALYSIS: The author said that music is easy to remember, because it has repeated patterns. That’s the only reason music is easy.

The conclusion is that jokes are not easy. So, presumably they don’t have repeated patterns. Otherwise, the comparison to music makes no sense to bring up.

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1. Symbolic information wasn’t mentioned in the stimulus, so this answer isn’t relevant. And….verbal? The stimulus said that information or text is normally hard, so verbal information would be hard.
2. The only thing that was easy to remember was repeated patterns. Short, pithy jokes don’t have repeated patterns.
3. CORRECT. Music is only easy to remember because it has repeated patterns. This answer says jokes are the opposite: they purposefully break patterns. This makes them hard to remember.
4. Urgh. Memories aren’t relevant. The stimulus is about memory, whether you can memorize a thing. Whereas memories are things you remember from the past.
    
   Memorization = information recall, e.g. memorizing the names of capital cities. Memories = playing in a flowery field as a child.
    
   They’re totally different! This answer is just a distractor.
5. This explains why things in general are hard to remember. It doesn’t tell us why jokes are hard to remember. We don’t know if jokes have patterns or not.

Recap: The question begins with “As regards memory, the brain responds best to repeated”. It is a Complete the Argument question. Learn how to master LSAT Complete the Argument questions on the LSAT Logical Reasoning question types page.