Assignment:

Read the following scenarios and then write down three inferences you could make to explain each situation. Number your responses but DO NOT write statements 1-7.

Be imaginative!

1. Your neighbors have regular habits and spend a lot of time at home. One day you notice that no lights have appeared in their house in the evenings for at least a week.

2. In an airport waiting room, you sit down next to a nun wearing a dark blue dress, starched white collar, and starched white headdress. You notice she is reading Playboy magazine.

3. Your child, age four, usually has a good appetite. However, she says no this morning to everything you offer her to eat.

4. You are on a Greyhound bus. A man gets on and sits beside you. He is carrying an expensive briefcase, although he is shabbily dressed, unshaven, and perspiring heavily. When you suggest he place his briefcase on the rack overhead, he refuses, saying he doesnt mind holding it in his lap.

5. You are looking in your wifes closet for your missing shoe, and you notice a new and expensive mans sports jacket hanging there.

6. After a class you go to see your professor about an error in addition on your test score. You explain to him respectfully that 100 minus 18 is 82, not 79. He tells you to get the hell out of his office.

7. You are driving through a valley on a spring morning in a heavy rainstorm. You are on a two-lane highway, and you notice that only about half the cars that pass you head-on have their lights on