“Birds have wings” will be verified faster than “Birds have blood,” because:
a. activation spreads more quickly between related nodes.
b. more general characteristics are always more quickly mediated.
c. more general characteristics are often primed by sentence activation.
d. activation does not spread across categories.
Ans: a
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