Sarah's Mom Told Her They Were Going Outside in the Rain

Sarah's mom told her they were going outside in the rain and needed a bumbershoot. Sarah had never heard the word bumbershoot before, but she knew the word umbrella. Sarah tries to figure out what the new word means, and eventually she decides that a bumbershoot must be an umbrella. Sarah must abandon her __________ to reach this conclusion.

A) cardinality principle
B) shape bias
C) overregularization principle
D) mutual exclusivity bias

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