system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
What happens in our brains when we are asked to say the first word that comes to our minds? How does our brain choose?
gpt
Studies show that part of what is happening is priming from whatever came before it.  For example, if you hear "money" and "Finance", and then are asked to say a word related to "bank", it will be a word related to a financial institution, whereas if you hear words like "fish" and "river", and are asked to say a word related to "bank", you'll say something related to a river bank.

Also, if people are asked to say a string of nouns as quickly as possible, they will all tend to be related: "tree, leaf, grass, dirt, road, car, tire" etc.  It's far less random than we believe when it's actually studied.