According to Collins and Quillian's semantic network model, it should take longest to verify which statement below?
A) Pigs are pigs.
B) A pig is an animal.
C) A pig is a pig.
D) A pig is a mammal.

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According to the semantic network model, verifying statements that have a longer path between the concept and its properties takes longer. In this case, verifying that a pig is an animal requires traversing two levels (pig → animal) in the network, which takes longer than verifying that a pig is a pig, which only requires one level of traversal (pig → pig). The other two statements (pigs are pigs and a pig is a mammal) also only require one level of traversal in the semantic network, so they should be easier and quicker to verify.

According to Collins and Quillian's Semantic Network Model, It Should