# EDUCATING PSYCHE: answers and explanations

Cambridge IELTS 7, Test 1, Reading Passage 3

Source: Passage, questions and answer key from Cambridge IELTS 7, Test 1, Reading Passage 3. © Cambridge University Press & Assessment. Used for educational practice. Explanations and evidence notes are written by Testmigo.

## Answer key

| Q | Answer | Proof |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 27 | D | is a book which looks at radical new approaches to learning |
| 28 | A | we will find it easier to recall peripheral details ... we often remember what we have perceived peripherally, long after we have forgotten what we set out to learn. |
| 29 | B | Besides the laboratory evidence for this, we know from our experience that we often remember what we have perceived peripherally |
| 30 | C | consciousness is shifted away from the curriculum to focus on something peripheral. |
| 31 | FALSE | the teacher reads the text slowly and solemnly, with attention to the dynamics of the music. ... while the teacher reads the text in a normal speaking voice. During this time they have their books closed. |
| 32 | FALSE | they develop the expectation that learning will be easy and pleasant |
| 33 | TRUE | Such methods are not unusual in language teaching. |
| 34 | NOT GIVEN | What is distinctive in the suggestopedic method is that they are devoted entirely to assisting recall. |
| 35 | NOT GIVEN | few teachers are able to emulate the spectacular results of Lozanov and his associates. |
| 36 | TRUE | Another difference from conventional teaching is the evidence that students can regularly learn 1000 new words of a foreign language during a suggestopedic session |
| 37 | F | Lozanov acknowledges that the ritual surrounding suggestion in his own system is also a placebo |
| 38 | H | in his own system is also a placebo ... Such rituals may be seen as placebos. |
| 39 | K | While suggestopedia has gained some notoriety through success in the teaching of modern languages |
| 40 | G | few teachers are able to emulate the spectacular results of Lozanov and his associates. ... We can, perhaps, attribute mediocre results to an inadequate placebo effect. |

## Why these answers are right

**27. D.** The question asks for the main subject of the book. The first paragraph says Educating Psyche looks at radical new approaches to learning, and radical new approaches are ways of learning that are not traditional, so D is correct. Suggestion is only one theory the book discusses.

**28. A.** You need what Lozanov's theory says about memory. The writer explains that we remember what we perceived peripherally long after forgetting what we set out to learn, and that peripheral details such as a book's color or binding are easier to recall. Peripheral details are unimportant ones, so A fits.

**29. B.** The question asks why the book and lecture examples are given. After citing laboratory evidence for Lozanov's idea, the writer adds that we know it from our own experience and then describes recalling a book's typeface or a lecturer's mannerisms. The examples support the theory, so B is correct.

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