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Thank you We sneak in and here's your smoke too

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Sure brought to you by long words Hint They only

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make you sound smart if you save him correctly Sophie

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needs fund the definition of hippopotamus on strada Sick whippet

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dally phobia Well she jumps on the google search This

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is an example of what and hear Potential answers are

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trialling air heuristics recall recognition dark board thinking fu monstro

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Yeah good luck Believe it or not this monstrous word

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refers to the fear of long words It had run

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from its own reflection So how did sophie learn its

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definition Well there are many ways to find info and

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sophie tried that time honored solution of googling society source

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for online research and cat photos Trial and error refers

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to experimentation trying something until you get it right You

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know like the kid who first tried being a golf

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than an m o then just settles on being a

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condescending hipster But sophie went right for one solution and

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recall is the term for retrieving info from memory If

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she knew the definition she would've had to look it

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up And recognition is the process of matching stimulus to

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patterns in memory but there's no existing memory for this

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fourteen syllable word unless sophia studying the dictionary in between

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meals Finally dartboard thinking is just choosing ideas randomly like

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throwing darts at a dartboard like how nbc chooses which

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beloved shows to cancel so if he didn't choose randomly

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Instead she used a mental shortcut googling which has worked

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many times before These shortcuts are called poi heuristics making

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be correct Next we'll discuss the long word vainglorious it's 00:01:43.098 --> [endTime] a long word for people who use long words

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