Three Friends Are Having a Discussion About Taxes, but the Conversation

question 184

Multiple Choice

Three friends are having a discussion about taxes, but the conversation is soon sidetracked as different statements bring up related ideas. The conversation drifts from taxes, to politicians, to the election, to fund-raising. This shift in the focus of the conversation is consistent with Collins and Loftus' theory of

• A)prospective memory processes.
• B)spreading activation within a semantic network.
• C)schema-based recall of information.
• D)mood-congruent memory.