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In a recent psychological survey, participants aged 40 to 60 were asked to name the song that had made the greatest emotional impact on their lives. Remarkably, in 86 percent of cases, the participant named a song that was popular when he or she was between thirteen and seventeen years old. Clearly, music has an inherently greater emotional effect on teenagers than on people of other ages.
Each of the following, if true, weakens the argument presented above EXCEPT
a) All of the other questions asked during the survey centered around the participants' teenage years.
b) People are more likely to have deeper emotional responses to life events, and to associate contemporaneous songs with those events, during the teenage years than at other times of life.
c) People tend to retain and recall emotionally infused memories with greater depth, detail, and accuracy than other memories.
d) People tend to listen to a much greater number of songs during the teenage years than at other times of life.
e) Most of the songs cited by the survey respondents retained their popularity for twenty or more years.
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Re: Emotional Impact... [#permalink]
28 Aug 2012, 23:49
I feel should B be the answer. It strengthens the conclusion that teenage years are most important in the lives of people. The weaken statement should be opposite of this choice.
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Re: Emotional Impact... [#permalink]
29 Aug 2012, 00:17
In a recent psychological survey, participants aged 40 to 60 were asked to name the song that had made the greatest emotional impact on their lives. Remarkably, in 86 percent of cases, the participant named a song that was popular when he or she was between thirteen and seventeen years old. Clearly, music has an inherently greater emotional effect on teenagers than on people of other ages.
Each of the following, if true, weakens the argument presented above EXCEPT
a) All of the other questions asked during the survey centered around the participants' teenage years. -Neutral argument, we cannot make out the emotional effect on teenagers than people of any other ages.
b) People are more likely to have deeper emotional responses to life events, and to associate contemporaneous songs with those events, during the teenage years than at other times of life. -Yes this should be correct, it clearly mentions the parallel between deeper emotional responses and the teenage years.
c) People tend to retain and recall emotionally infused memories with greater depth, detail, and accuracy than other memories. - Out of Scope.
d) People tend to listen to a much greater number of songs during the teenage years than at other times of life. - Slightly strengthen, Because people listen to more songs during teenage that it might be the reason for the greater emotional effect during teenage. but this point is not made in the argument and would therefore be an assumption.
e) Most of the songs cited by the survey respondents retained their popularity for twenty or more years. - Out of Scope.
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Re: Emotional Impact... [#permalink]
29 Aug 2012, 02:56
C a) All of the other questions asked during the survey centered around the participants' teenage years. if all other questions were related to teenages, they might have remembered the songs in relation to these questionsQuote: music has an inherently greater emotional effect on teenagers than on people of other ages b) People are more likely to have deeper emotional responses to life events, and to associate contemporaneous songs with those events, during the teenage years than at other times of life. weakens - so, events are important and these are related to songsc) People tend to retain and recall emotionally infused memories with greater depth, detail, and accuracy than other memories. does not seem to weakend) People tend to listen to a much greater number of songs during the teenage years than at other times of life. so, the songs are remembered bcos they listen a lot of songs during teenage, not because they emotionally impact them. weakense) Most of the songs cited by the survey respondents retained their popularity for twenty or more years. these songs were popular for 20 years, so they could have heard it and emotionally be attached to these songs in some years other than the teenage years
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Re: Emotional Impact... [#permalink]
29 Aug 2012, 06:46
the answer is B i supose 
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Re: Emotional Impact... [#permalink]
29 Aug 2012, 07:20
My initial response was B, but the OA is C  akrish, can you explain in greater detail how you eliminated B...
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Re: Emotional Impact... [#permalink]
29 Aug 2012, 07:46
Answer C should be the correct answer.
B does weakens the argument by saying that people will have in general more emotional response to their teeange events irreespective of music thus music has no role to play in it.
contemporaneous - existing at the same time.
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Re: Emotional Impact... [#permalink]
29 Aug 2012, 10:47
here all the choices weaken except implies that the correct answer choice either strengthen or doesnt make impact on the conclusion so all the people who think that option c is out of scope your understanding is right but your perception is flawed...
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Re: Emotional Impact... [#permalink]
29 Aug 2012, 11:31
least strengthen <> weaken least weaken <> strengthen in such questions, mostly the out of scope options are correct. because these options neither strengthen nor weaken.e: vaguely weaken. if age of the respondents is in 40-60 range and they remember songs from their teens, if the songs have been popular for more than 20 years, it is likely that people are still familiar with the songs and it is not an emotional effect(recollection).
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