The Priming Effect Observed in Lexical-Decision Procedures Reflects All of the Following

question 42

Multiple Choice

The priming effect observed in lexical-decision procedures reflects all of the following EXCEPT:

• A) nodes are activated individually, so the activation of each node is largely independent of the activation level of neighboring nodes
• B) once a node is activated, activation is likely to spread to other nodes, representing semantically related concepts
• C) a node can be more quickly activated if it has already received some subthreshold activation from neighboring nodes
• D) activation is likely to spread between closely associated nodes and is unlikely to spread between more distantly related nodes