The experiment in which participants first read sentences about a baseball game and were then asked to identify sentences they had seen before, illustrated that memory
A) is better for vivid descriptions.
B) is like a tape recording.
C) depends on the participant's mood.
D) involves making inferences.

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The experiment demonstrates that memory involves making inferences because participants often remember sentences or details that were implied but not explicitly stated, indicating that their memories are not just recordings of what they saw or heard but also include inferences made at the time of encoding.

The Experiment in Which Participants First Read Sentences About a Baseball