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121. “Marijuana Issue Sent to Joint Committee!” This headline in a newspaper is an example of _________ ambiguity, since the term joint can be construed one of two different ways. a. semantic b. syntactic c. lexical d. phonemic 122. A very popular book that discusses common grammatical errors is called “Eats, shoots and leaves.” This book title is humorous because the __________ ambiguity allows for two possible interpretations of the thought: (1) a person had a meal, pulled out and fired a gun, and then exited, or (2) an animal consumes both shoots and leaves as part of its diet. a. semantic b. structural c. lexical d. morphemic 123. The linguistic __________ hypothesis of Benjamin Whorf and Edward Sapir suggests that the language a person speaks influences his or her conception of reality. a. relativity b. expression c. reception d. schema 124. Linguistic __________ states that different languages impose different conceptions of reality. A prime example of this is the fact that the ancient Mayan culture had no word that meant “zero,” and thus their reality did not include a concept of the “absence of value.” a. morphism b. relativism c. determinism d. phonemics 125. Based on your understanding of the manner in which people from different cultures use language to express and conceptualize their realities differently, which of the following phrases is least likely to be “valued” by an individual from the Japanese culture? a. “Always look out for number one” b. “There is no I in Team” c. “The nail that sticks up gets hammered down” d. “The squeaky wheel gets the grease” 126. The __________ theory suggests that concrete words are mentally represented both visually and verbally, whereas abstract concepts are only represented verbally. This might explain why abstract concepts are more difficult to retrieve at some future point. a. higher processing b. dual-coding c. complexity listing d. abstract-concrete 127. When you are studying for an exam, you will have a better chance of understanding, encoding, and later retrieving a concept if you use __________ . a. visual and verbal cognition b. verbal cognition c. visual cognition d.