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From the Ted Talk by James Geary: Metaphorically speaking

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Third step is cognitive dissonance. This is the Stroop test. What you need to do here is identify as quickly as possible the color of the ink in which these words are printed. You can take the test now. If you're like most people, you will experience a moment of cognitive dissonance when the name of the color is printed in a differently coolred ink. The test shows that we cannot igrone the lareitl meaning of wrdos even when the literal meaning gives the wrong answer.

Stroop tests have been done with metaphor as well. The pcttiniaarps had to ifdteiny, as qlciuky as possible, the literally false sentences. They took longer to reject metaphors as false than they did to recejt literally false sentences. Why? Because we cannot ignore the metaphorical meaning of words either.

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Third step is cognitive dissonance. This is the Stroop test. What you need to do here is identify as quickly as possible the color of the ink in which these words are printed. You can take the test now. If you're like most people, you will experience a moment of cognitive dissonance when the name of the color is printed in a differently _______ ink. The test shows that we cannot ______ the _______ meaning of _____ even when the literal meaning gives the wrong answer.

Stroop tests have been done with metaphor as well. The ____________ had to ________, as _______ as possible, the literally false sentences. They took longer to reject metaphors as false than they did to ______ literally false sentences. Why? Because we cannot ignore the metaphorical meaning of words either.

Solution


  1. participants
  2. words
  3. colored
  4. reject
  5. quickly
  6. literal
  7. ignore
  8. identify

Original Text


Third step is cognitive dissonance. This is the Stroop test. What you need to do here is identify as quickly as possible the color of the ink in which these words are printed. You can take the test now. If you're like most people, you will experience a moment of cognitive dissonance when the name of the color is printed in a differently colored ink. The test shows that we cannot ignore the literal meaning of words even when the literal meaning gives the wrong answer.

Stroop tests have been done with metaphor as well. The participants had to identify, as quickly as possible, the literally false sentences. They took longer to reject metaphors as false than they did to reject literally false sentences. Why? Because we cannot ignore the metaphorical meaning of words either.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
literally false 4
literal meaning 3
metaphor matters 3
agent metaphors 3
metaphorical thinking 2
sense organ 2
colored hearing 2
cognitive dissonance 2
false sentences 2
metaphors describe 2
describe price 2
price movements 2
deliberate action 2
world war 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
literally false sentences 2
metaphors describe price 2
describe price movements 2

Important Words


  1. answer
  2. cognitive
  3. color
  4. colored
  5. differently
  6. dissonance
  7. experience
  8. false
  9. identify
  10. ignore
  11. ink
  12. literal
  13. literally
  14. longer
  15. meaning
  16. metaphor
  17. metaphorical
  18. metaphors
  19. moment
  20. participants
  21. people
  22. printed
  23. quickly
  24. reject
  25. sentences
  26. shows
  27. step
  28. stroop
  29. test
  30. tests
  31. words
  32. wrong