Question

During a psychology lecture, your instructor uses the word college as a metaphor for social life. When he says the word college, lots of information comes to mind: dorm rooms, students, tests, professors, textbooks, pencils, and sporting events. The word has activated a_________.

Answer 1

Schema.

Step-by-step explanation:

A schema is a pattern of of thought that organizes information. Like in the exercise; the word "college" immediately organizes a semantic field of the word, just as dorm rooms, students, professors, studying, reading; names, dates, personal information, etc., in the mind of an individual. The schema is the pattern of information, the phenomenon that organizes all of that, a somekind of structure of information.