During a psychology lecture,your instructor uses the word college as a metaphor for social life.When he says the word college,lots of information comes to mind: dorm rooms,students,tests,professors,textbooks,pencils,and sporting events.The word has activated a ____.
A) script
B) schema
C) sensory register
D) semantic memory

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A schema is a cognitive framework or concept that helps organize and interpret information in the brain. The mention of college activates a schema for a university experience, which includes dorm rooms, students, professors, textbooks, and sporting events. This concept is more consistent with a schema than a script, which refers to a sequence of events. Sensory register is a brief and temporary storage of sensory information, and semantic memory is a long-term memory system that involves the processing of meaning. Neither of these concepts is as directly related to the activation of a college schema.

During a Psychology Lecture,your Instructor Uses the Word College as a Metaphor