Suppose you meet someone, and you can recall both her face and her name, but you cannot recall exactly where you first met her. In terms of parallel distributed processing, this phenomenon would be called
a. graceful degradation.
b. reassignment of connection weights.
c. spontaneous generalization.
d. a default assignment.
Ans: a
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