Question: why does context influence the way we understand text

title: Context effect
text: Context effects can have a wide range of impacts in daily life . In reading difficult handwriting context effects are used to determine what letters make up a word . This helps us analyze potentially ambiguous messages and decipher them correctly . It can also affect our perception of unknown sounds based on the noise in the environment . For example , we may fill in a word we can not make out in a sentence based on the other words we could understand . Context can prime our attitudes and beliefs about certain topics based on current environmental factors and our previous experiences with them . 

Answer: answer: In reading difficult handwriting context effects are used to determine what letters make up a word . This helps us analyze potentially ambiguous messages and decipher them correctly, and it can also affect our perception of unknown sounds based on the noise in the environment . Context can prime our attitudes and beliefs about certain topics based on current environmental factors and our previous experiences with them .