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.
Answer: D
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