Question

On his way to buy a snack,Jed sees an ad that simply shows one juicy hamburger.Rather than getting ice cream as he had planned,Jed buys French fries instead.According to the spreading activation model,the hamburger most likely made Jed want French fries because:__________.
A) eating hamburgers and French fries are part of the same procedural memory.
B) he misattributed his memory of the ad to being about French fries.
C) the hamburger activated the node for French fries.
D) the French fries were encoded with the hamburger in the ad.

Answer 1

Answer: Option(C) is correct option

Explanation:

Spreading activation model is the concept in which certain scenario is process in mind which activates the spread out in the network path.This spread of activation makes its way to certain memory areas through nodes more for cognitive processing.

According to the question, Jed got french fries along with hamburger because activated node took processing towards french fries in memory network.

Other options are incorrect because spreading activation model did not act when misattribution for french fries took place,eating hamburger and french fries are similar procedural memory and encoding of french fries along with hamburger.Thus, the correct option is option(C).