It has troubled almost anyone thinking carefully about a word for some time. Think about the word "flower". F-l-o-w-e-r. Flowers. The flower in the field. The flower in the grass. Flower. Flower. Flower.
F-l-o-w-e-r?!
① _______ Did the word just break into pieces before your eyes, become strange and unable to understand, or some meaningless letters? If so, what just happened to you is nothing new, In fact. the phenomenon (现象) was first described in The American Journal of Psychology in 1907;""Ifa word is looked at carefully for some time, it will be found to become strange and foreign. …"Or, as Urban Dictionary describes the situation: "When you say a word so much, it starts to sound strange"
② __________Over the years, this phenomenon has got many different names, but the best known one is semantic satiation (语义饱和) . Leon James, a professor of psychology at the University of Hawaii's firstly used it in 1962. James did many experiments to find out how semantic satiation affects (影响) thinking.
③_________ It's a kind of mental fatigue (心理疲劳) , he said. When a brain gets started, it takes more energy to start the second time, and still more the third time. And finally, it won't even answer until you wait a few seconds for the fourth time. "This gave me an idea: If you keep saying a word, the meaning in the word keeps being repeated, and then it becomes more difficult to understand when you continue to pay attention to it."
④________ Some new medical research showed that it could be used to treat steering (口吃). Businessmen have begun rethinking their ways of selling. One example is "Double Eleven. "Because of overuse, "Double Eleven is no longer as exciting and popular today as it once was.
