Which example best illustrates spreading activation at work?
a. Your sensory registers allow you to perceive smooth motion when you move your head.
b. You find it difficult to remember happy things when you are in a bad mood.
c. You find it easy to relearn vocabulary words that you had once learned but forgot.
d. You start thinking about cars, and that leads you to think about trucks and sport-utility vehicles.
Question 2
The semantic memory network theory says that ____.
a. concepts are represented by neural networks within the brain
b. information is stored in memory by a process called spreading activation
c. semantic memories must be processed by sensory and short-term memory before entering long-term memory
d. information is more likely to be remembered if it is processed deeply
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