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Chapter 8 discusses research by Turan and Horowitz, which explored the concept of being there for a romantic partner. The concept of prototype was relevant in this research because:
 
  a. the scale for the concept of being there in times of stress was based on people's ideas of prototypical behavior in a romantic relationship.
  b. people typically said that nonprototypical behavior would be especially helpful in times of stress.
  c. there was a strong family resemblance among the various responses that a person could make in connection with the graded structure of the concept.
  d. the concept of prototype has changed over recent decades, with respect to the dimension of being there.

Question 2

The prototype approach to semantic memory works especially well in which of the following conditions?
 
  a. when applied to a group of items that have no single characteristic in common
  b. when explaining how we store details about each individual example of a category
  c. when accounting for why experts and nonexperts differ with respect to their use of subordinate-level categories
  d. when pointing out why people believe that some categories have clear-cut boundaries, rather than fuzzy boundaries



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Answer to Question 1

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Answer to Question 2

Ans: a



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