Question

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 wasa. poor concentration.
b. focusing on the speaker's topic.
c. being distracted by external interference.
d. jumping to conclusions.
e. spare "brain time."

Answer 1

Answer:

The answer is d. jumping to conclusions.

Explanation:

Jumping to conclusions  is a psychological term referring to a communication obstacle where one "judges or decides something without having all the facts; to reach unwarranted conclusions". Margaret here decides not to listen to the speaker's talk and just judged the speaker without knowing all of the information.