Students Can Get a Teacher Off the Subject by Asking

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Multiple Choice

Students can get a teacher off the subject by asking one slightly off-topic question, which sets up an association with another topic and then to another topic and so on until the teacher is "miles" from what she was originally teaching. This illustrates which model of memory?

• A)consolidation model
• B)eidetic model
• C)pseudoassociation model
• D)network model

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