Author Question: Think about the various approaches to general knowledge, as discussed in Chapter 8. Which of these ... (Read 93 times)

futuristic · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Think about the various approaches to general knowledge, as discussed in Chapter 8. Which of these approaches is most closely related to the concept of boundary extension?

a. the prototype approach
b. the exemplar approach
c. the parallel distributed processing (PDP) approach
d. the schema approach

Question 2

Which of the following students provides the most accurate description of the way that boundary extension might operate in eyewitness testimony?

a. Daniel: Each time the eyewitness retells the story, the boundary becomes increasingly well defined.
b. Nora: In reality monitoring, eyewitnesses have difficulty establishing the boundary between events that actually happened and events that they simply imagined.
c. Dora Mara: A lawyer can carefully manipulate the questions, so that eyewitnesses remember the inferences, rather than events that actually happened.
d. Augusto: Eyewitnesses may believe that they saw a person's entire face, when part of the face was actually blocked from view.