Author Question: In the first part of Posner, Goldsmith, and Welton's classic experiment on prototype abstraction, ... (Read 78 times)

Kikoku · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

In the first part of Posner, Goldsmith, and Welton's classic experiment on prototype abstraction, research participants saw:

A) the prototype
B) classical scenes broken down into basic shapes and forms
C) distortions of prototypes
D) coffee cups
E) a large display with 27 dots in no particular order

Question 2

From the experiments on prototype theory, two main theoretical models of prototype formation have emerged. These are:

A) featural variation vs. featural similarity
B) featural similarity vs. attribute dispersion
C) average variance vs. attribute consolidation
D) central tendency vs. attribute dispersion
E) central tendency vs. attribute frequency