keannu
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High school first grade mock test : 2918-9-29
People are innately inclined to look for causes of events, to form explanations and stories.
That is one reason storytelling is such a persuasive medium. Stories resonate with our experiences and provide examples of new instances.
From our experiences and the stories of others we tend to form generalizations about the way people behave and things work.
We attribute causes to events, and as long as these cause* and* effect pairings make sense, we use them for understanding future events.
Yet these causal attributions are often mistaken. Sometimes they implicate the wrong causes, and for some things that happen, there is no single cause. Rather, there is a complex chain of events that all contribute to the result; if any one of the events would not have occurred, the result would be dissimilar. But even when there is no single causal act, that doesn’t stop people from assigning one.
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What does the underlined "assigning one" mean?
People are innately inclined to look for causes of events, to form explanations and stories.
That is one reason storytelling is such a persuasive medium. Stories resonate with our experiences and provide examples of new instances.
From our experiences and the stories of others we tend to form generalizations about the way people behave and things work.
We attribute causes to events, and as long as these cause* and* effect pairings make sense, we use them for understanding future events.
Yet these causal attributions are often mistaken. Sometimes they implicate the wrong causes, and for some things that happen, there is no single cause. Rather, there is a complex chain of events that all contribute to the result; if any one of the events would not have occurred, the result would be dissimilar. But even when there is no single causal act, that doesn’t stop people from assigning one.
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What does the underlined "assigning one" mean?
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