Participants in an experiment read one of the following two pairs of sentences: 1)Jane took the picnic out of the trunk.The soda was warm.2)Jane took the soda out of the trunk.The soda was warm.Participants who read Sentence Pair #1 tend to take longer than those who read Sentence Pair #2.This difference emerges because Sentence Pair #1 requires that participants
A)read more words.
B)parse more difficult syntax.
C)make a bridging inference.
D)establish a hypothesis

Question

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Sentence Pair #1 requires participants to make a bridging inference between the subject of the first sentence (Jane) and the object of the second sentence (the soda). This inference is not required in Sentence Pair #2, which simply states that Jane took the warm soda out of the trunk. The need for a bridging inference in Sentence Pair #1 may cause participants to take longer to process and understand the sentences.

Participants in an Experiment Read One of the Following Two