Marni knows many facts about cowboy hats. However, while each of these facts is associated with cowboy hats, the various facts are not associated with one another. As a result, Marni may be less able to recall a particular fact about cowboy hats in comparison to someone who knows just that fact and nothing more. This is because:
A) activation spreads to only one node at a time, so the process of spread will take too long and Marni will give up before she finds the sought-after information
B) there are simply too many nodes to access
C) all of Marni's facts will become activated at once, causing anterograde amnesia
D) the large degree of fan from Marni's cowboy hat node causes the activation to be spread too thinly over the numerous connected nodes for it to activate the node she needs
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