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serike

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Concepts can guide our thinking and be continually tested for accuracy against new, incoming information, such as by judging category membership. In this way, concept formation can be viewed as a type of ____.
 
  a. theory building
  b. schema
  c. feature detection
  d. prototype

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Which of the following is true?
 
  a. Exemplars provide a better way of thinking about the variability of a category than prototypes.
  b. Even when an exemplar is well understood, evidence suggests that prototypes might work better.
  c. The processes in which prototypes and exemplars are used are very different.
  d. In both exemplars and prototypes, dissimilar objects will be included in a concept and similar objects will be excluded.


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morganmarie791

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Reply #1 on: Jun 19, 2018
Answer to Question 1

ANSWER:
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Answer to Question 2

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serike

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Reply 2 on: Jun 19, 2018
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