Which Example Best Illustrates Spreading Activation at Work

question 66

Multiple Choice

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.

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Definitions:

Sample Means

The arithmetic average of a set of values chosen from a larger population for the purpose of statistical analysis.

Process Control

Techniques and methods used to monitor, manage, and adjust processes to ensure they operate within desired parameters and produce outputs of consistent quality.

Assignable Variation

Fluctuations in a process resulting from concrete causes, as opposed to unpredictable variation.

Pooled Standard Deviation

A method to estimate the standard deviation from several different samples taken from similar populations.