When Karen saw the doughnuts in the bakery section of the store, she remembered that she still needed to get frosting for her homemade cupcakes. This connection is an example of a __________.

A semantic network is a set of concepts linked by associations. Seeing doughnuts brings the related idea of frosting to Karen’s mind, which is an example of one concept activating another in a semantic network. A schema is broader organized knowledge about a situation, such as what typically happens when baking cupcakes.

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