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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This is an example of spreading activation in an associative network, which suggests that the activation of one node (such as the name "Keynes") can spread to other related nodes in the network (such as economic terms).

In an Experiment in Which All the Participants Were Economics