In an Experiment in Which All the Participants Were Economics

question 21

Multiple Choice

In an experiment in which all the participants were Economics and History majors, it was found that the name "Keynes" (a famous economist) led to faster judgments about economic terms than did the name "Churchill." This is an example of:

• A)spreading activation in an associative network.
• B)dual-store view of bilingual representation
• C)prototype ratification.
• D)sentence verification.

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