A father and his young son walk by a store and see a big sign in the store window advertising a "Fire Sale" next Tuesday. Although the father knows this means that the store will be selling their goods at greatly reduced prices, his son wonders why anyone would sell "fire.". This difference in their reactions is due to
a. heuristics.
b. semantics.
c. phonemes.
d. grammar.
B
Psychology
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