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I think there's a lot of possible explanations which may be true to different degrees and for different people.

One possibility is that it becomes more challenging to integrate information the more you know, and the more that you are aware of your limitations.

The child might read something and pick up the general idea of what things are from the context. An adult might realize that the context definition is incomplete.

A child might read an instruction that says to use a box wrench to tighten the bolt and pick up from contacts that that's just the tool that you use.

An adult night Wonder what kind of box wrench, metric or imperial ratcheting or not. What about other times where I use the socket for this type of work, is that better



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