Weston is initially unsure how to answer the question "What is the capital of Wisconsin?" When provided with the hint "It's a girl's name," Weston quickly recalls that the capital is Madison.Which of the following best explains this?

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The hint "It's a girl's name" activated the girl's names nodes in Weston's memory, and since he already was thinking about Wisconsin (due to the question about its capital), the activation flowed from both the Wisconsin nodes and the girl's names nodes to the Madison node, enabling him to recall that Madison is the capital of Wisconsin. This is an example of how associative memory works, where connections between different pieces of information can help in the retrieval of a specific memory.

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