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Moses illusion: a standalone construct

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Psycholinguistics

failure to notice a semantic anomaly in a question, such as a wrong but related name, when it fits the overall meaning.

In psycholinguistics, Moses illusion refers to failure to notice a semantic anomaly in a question, such as a wrong but related name, when it fits the overall meaning. This meaning comes from Erickson (1981) in Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior.[1]

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anomaly4 fields · 7 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs failure4 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs learning6 fields · 14 citationsjingle · one name, six constructs

References

Erickson, T. D., & Mattson, M. E. (1981). From words to meaning: A semantic illusion. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 20(5), 540-551. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0022-5371(81)90165-1

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