Which of the following is the best explanation of the fan effect?

a) The more connected a concept is with other concepts, the longer it takes to make judgments about that concept
b) If a concept is connected to another concept, each of them will also be connected to further concepts.
c) Concepts that have many other concepts in common will be retrieved at the same time.
d) Retrieval of one concept will lead to retrieval of other connected concepts.


A

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