The activation stage does seem a bit daunting. I conducted an experiment and posted the results of the experiment on the forum. You might want to check it out... by pass the background info I posted and just scroll down to the activation section. I was a bit detailed because I wanted to show beginners that the apprehension isn't unusal.
http://www.learningstrategies.com/forum/ubb/Forum8/HTML/002346.html Alex
