A _____ Is the Mental Path by Which Some Thought

question 12

Multiple Choice

A _____ is the mental path by which some thought becomes active.

• A) memory trace
• B) semantic code
• C) node
• D) retrieval path
• E) response trace

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Definitions:

Influenced

Being affected or changed in behavior, attitude, or other aspects due to the impact of external factors.

Situational Attribution

The process of inferring that a person's behavior is due to situational factors.

Dispositional Attribution

The tendency to attribute someone's behavior to their personality or character rather than to external factors.

Stanley Milgram's Obedience Research

A series of social psychology experiments conducted in the 1960s which measured the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience.