Author Question: Research suggests that the approach to categorization works best for small categories (e.g., U.S. ... (Read 88 times)

Zulu123 · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Research suggests that the approach to categorization works best for small categories (e.g., U.S. presidents).

a. semantic network
b. definitional
c. prototype
d. exemplar

Question 2

Imagine that a young child is just learning about the category dog. Thus far, she has experienced only two dogs, one a small poodle and the other a large German shepherd. On her third encounter with a dog, she will be LEAST likely to correctly categorize the animal as a dog if that animal

a. matches the size of the poodle but is of a different breed.
b. is a dog that does not bark.
c. matches an exemplar of one of the dogs she has experienced.
d. is similar to an average for the dogs she has encountered.