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Eight-year-old Mary was asked if the shark at the aquarium was a fish. She responded: no, because that shark is too big to be fish. Kristen was not able to identify that the shark is a _______________ of fish.
 
  a. correlational feature
  b. defining feature
  c. positive instance
  d. negative instance

Question 2

Gina attends a wedding ceremony conducted in a culture very different from her own, and many of the rites performed during the ceremony seem strange and unfamiliar to her. Later, she finds that she can best remember those parts of the ceremony that were similar to how weddings are performed in her own culture. In which one of the following ways would a cognitive psychologist be most likely to explain this situation?
 
  a. Schemas encourage us to elaborate on the wide variety of stimuli we encounter over the course of our daily lives.
  b. We often learn new concepts by forming and testing hypotheses about defining and correlational features.
  c. Concepts are often stored in terms of exemplars.
  d. We can more accurately remember events that are consistent with familiar scripts.



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Jmfn03

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Answer to Question 1

c

Answer to Question 2

d




RYAN BANYAN

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Reply 2 on: Jun 20, 2018
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review


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Wow, this really help

 

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