Margaret is passionately committed to animal rights. At an evening lecture required for her biology class, she learned that the title of the speaker's talk was "The Importance of Animal Experimentation to Medical Advances." Offended and sure that the speaker had nothing ethical or interesting to say, Margaret ignored everything the speaker said and spent the whole lecture sending outraged tweets to other animal activists. According to your textbook, the primary cause of Margaret's poor listening was
A. poor concentration.
B. spare "brain time."
C. jumping to conclusions.
D. being distracted by external interference.
E. focusing on the speaker's topic.
Answer: C
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