Mark sees a man walk into a bank downtown.Suddenly,alarms sound,people scream,and Mark sees the same man run out of the bank carrying a gun and a bag of money.Because Mark has never seen such an occurrence before,he uses a __________ to deduce that the man is a robber.
A)conversion strategy
B)syllogistic schema
C)transitive-inference strategy
D)pragmatic reasoning schema

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A pragmatic reasoning schema is used to make inferences based on context and knowledge of how events typically occur in the real world. In this case, Mark is using his understanding of how banks work and how robberies typically occur to reason that the man he saw is a robber.

Mark Sees a Man Walk into a Bank Downtown