Joan is eating lunch, and she says to Brad, "Can you pass the salt?" Brad replies "Yes, I can"; however, he doesn't actually pass the salt. What kind of miscommunication does this brief conversation suggest?
a. a slip-of-the-tongue
b. a syntactic error
c. a pragmatic problem
d. the linearization problem
Ans: c
Psychology
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a. heredity. b. environmental factors. c. situational conditions. d. locus of control. e. projection.
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Evidence supports the notion that observation of media violence
A) does not lead to subsequent aggression later in life. B) is related to higher levels of depression by age 30. C) is related to higher levels of anxiety by age 30. D) can lead to a greater readiness to act aggressively, bullying, and an insensitivity to the suffering of victims of violence.
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