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According to the passage, how did the author come to relate the word "horse" to the word "shoulder"?


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All right a c t s buyers were on two

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of ten Now here's the question on the signs of

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human nature By william henry pile according to the passage

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what psychological process determines an individual's specific idea associations The

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strength of a particular association is determined by how many

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chance of the brain has had no link to those

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ideas Right The author says that the connections are strengthened

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by frequency recency primacy and vividness of experience right there

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at the very end Well while interests and memories and

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like bnc may serve to create those connections while they

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aren't the connection itself like imagine telephone wire Yeah well

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you know no one uses land lines these days but

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just go with us The telephones are the ideas They're

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connected but the wire itself is the connection Intelligence might

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be true but it's unmentionables Unmentioned can use it so

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the answer is a the strength of connections within the 00:01:05.264 --> [endTime] brain

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