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jwb375

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Most people's definition of teddy bear could be used to demonstrate the concept of a category central tendency.

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Rips (1975) reported an experiment in which subjects read a story about an island inhabited by only eight species of animals: sparrows, robins, eagles, hawks, ducks, geese, ostriches, and bats. The evidence indicated __________.
 
  a. support for prepositional theories of representation
  b. support for PDP models
  c. support for the dual-coding hypothesis
  d. evidence for prototype effects



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Answer to Question 1



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Answer: d



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