Which one of the following statements best describes the perspective known as theory theory?
a. The ways in which people categorize their experiences usually have little relevance to physical reality.
b. In the preschool years, children develop concrete understandings of events; these understandings become increasingly abstract as they reach adolescence.
c. People develop general belief systems about how certain aspects of the world operate.
d. People form hypotheses about the defining features and correlational features of a concept and then test those hypotheses against specific examples of the concept that they encounter.
Question 2
From the textbook's perspective, what is a key advantage of developing schemas and scripts?
a. They reduce the amount of information we need to acquire in order to make sense of a situation.
b. They increase the likelihood that we will perceive a situation accurately.
c. They enable us to bypass working memory and store information directly in long-term memory.
d. They decrease the need for meaningful learning.
The work of Charles Darwin forms the foundation for modern evolutionary theory.
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