COGNITION
THINKING AND LANGUAGE
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Question
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When her teacher mentioned the arms race, Krista understood that the word “arms” referred to weapons and not to body parts. Krista’s correct interpretation best illustrates the importance of:
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semantics
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representativeness heuristic
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syntax
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morphemes
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -language, a system of conventional spoken, manual (signed), or written symbols by means of which human beings, as members of a social group and participants in its culture, express themselves.
Detailed explanation-2: -Receptive language is the “input” of language, the ability to understand and comprehend spoken language that you hear or read.
Detailed explanation-3: -Earlier this year, a study at MIT based on an online quiz of nearly 670, 000 people found that to achieve native-like knowledge of English grammar, it is best to start by about 10 years old, after which that ability declines.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Phoneme is the smallest unit of a language that can change meaning.
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