In experiments showing that there is semantic priming, people typically respond faster to a word when it has been preceded by a semantically related word than when it was preceded by an unrelated word. What is the explanation for this?
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there is no explanation yet; researchers are not sure
recognizing a word will spread activation to semantically related words, causing them to be harder to recognize subsequently
words that are semantically unrelated to one another still activate one another to some degree in the model
recognizing a word will spread activation to semantically related words, causing them to be easier to recognize subsequently