Ejercicio 1 · Parte 5, multiple choice

Ejercicio 1 · Parte 5, multiple choice

Elige la opción correcta.

1. What does the writer suggest about the shopping-centre study?Its results have been exaggerated.The conclusion usually drawn from it is the least interesting one.It has never been successfully repeated.The participants were misled about its purpose.B. El texto dice usually reported as evidence that memory is unreliable, which is true but not especially interesting. No niega el resultado (descarta A), habla de repeticiones (C) ni del engaño a los participantes como tema (D).
2. The writer compares memory to a story that gets retold in order toshow that memories fade gradually over time.suggest that people invent memories deliberately.emphasise that each recall changes what is stored.explain why some memories are more vivid than others.B. Each time we recall something we rebuild it. La comparación es justo lo contrario de que se desvanezca poco a poco, que es lo que dice A con la metáfora de la grabación que el texto rechaza.
3. In the third paragraph, the writer argues that reconstruction isan unavoidable weakness of any biological system.less common than psychologists once believed.the main reason childhood memories are unreliable.useful, because remembering exists in order to predict.C. the point of remembering is to predict, not to archive. A es exactamente lo que el párrafo niega al llamarlo design choice y no flaw.
4. What does «That is not a flaw so much as a design choice» imply?The error is better understood as a trade-off than as a fault.The brain evolved to be accurate above all.Scientists disagree about whether memory is faulty.Memory could be improved with the right training.B. La frase reencuadra el error como algo que se acepta a cambio de otra ventaja. C introduce un desacuerdo entre científicos que el texto no menciona en ningún momento.
5. What does the writer find troubling?That invented memories are more common than real ones.That how certain someone sounds says little about accuracy.That courts refuse to accept psychological evidence.That emotional memories are usually false.C. confidence and accuracy come apart. D es la trampa: el texto dice que los recuerdos inventados se contaron con más emoción, no que todo recuerdo emocional sea falso.
6. The word «rehearsed» in the last sentence suggests that a memory becomes convincing throughemotional intensity.independent confirmation.repetition.careful examination.A. how often a memory has been rehearsed: cuántas veces se ha repasado. La emoción aparece antes, pero la palabra rehearsed apunta a la repetición, no a la intensidad.