Author Question: For the category fruit, people give a higher typicality rating to banana than to kiwi. Knowing that, ... (Read 82 times)

Cooldude101 · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

For the category fruit, people give a higher typicality rating to banana than to kiwi. Knowing that, we can also reason that

a. the word fruit will lead to a larger priming effect for banana than for kiwi.
b. when people are asked to list all the fruits they can think of, kiwi will usually appear on their list before banana.
c. neither kiwi nor banana are likely to be the fruit closest to the prototype of the fruit category.
d. people will have a similar number of exemplars for kiwi and banana.

Question 2

When a participant is asked to list examples of the category vegetables, it is most likely that

a. a carrot would be named before eggplant.
b. an eggplant would be named before carrot.
c. a carrot and eggplant would have an equal likelihood of being named first.
d. the order of examples is completely random, varying from participant to participant.