"Greg had such a bad night out at the bar that he decided to buy a new cue stick." The inference that Greg had a bad night because he shot billiards poorly is a ________
This inferred fact ________ represented as
prominently as if it had actually been presented.
a) a bridging inference; would not be
b) an elaborative inference; would not be
c) a bridging inference; would be
d) an elaborative inference; would be
Answer: c
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A) children in non-Western cultures who have no formal schooling benefit greatly from instruction in memory strategies. B) children who have no formal schooling do as well on list memory tasks as formally educated children. C) the development of memory strategies is partly a product of task demands and cultural circumstances. D) American children easily refrain from rehearsing object names when it is more effective to keep track of spatial relations.
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a. your aunt b. your youngest brother c. you, the female sibling d. your oldest brother