communicative act

any verbal or nonverbal behavior through which one party deliberately or unintentionally transmits information to others. For example, a father may point at an object while helping his daughter clean her room to convey to the child that the object should be put away.

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February 11th 2025

cognitive complexity

the state or quality of a thought process that involves numerous constructs, with many interrelationships among them. Such processing is often experienced as difficult or effortful. See also conceptual complexity.