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In the following word completion task: carrot, peas, corn, b_____, most people would answer “beans” (instead of “beetle” for example) even though there were no instructions on how to do this task. The psychological reason we made the assumption that the blank word was related to the previous words is due to

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Wow, I said 'beets'..... I must be weird.

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