Collins and Quillian predicted that the amount of time it takes to answer a question about a concept should be related to _________.
A) the levels of processing within the network
B) the familiarity of the concept
C) the properties of the concept
D) the number of steps taken in the hierarchy to find the answer

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Collins and Quillian's hierarchical network model of semantic memory suggests that the time it takes to answer a question about a concept depends on the number of steps taken in the hierarchy to find the answer. This is because information is organized in a hierarchical manner, and accessing more distant relationships requires traversing more links in the hierarchy.

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