You can keep describing it in different, more technical terms if you want, all you're doing is making yourself more correct, not making me less correct.
Of course you and I know "attract" isn't the correct technical term, but that's the term OP used and there's nothing wrong with adjusting your message to communicate the same idea using words your audience will understand.
A lay person thinking "electricity is attracted to metal" still holds an accurate mental model of what can be expected. OP wanted to know if their mental model was correct, not whether they used the correct terminology to describe it.
Hey, that's not true! Everybody knows landlords only use white paint