Marvin, who lives in San Francisco, has been asked to host a teenage alien, Regor, as part of an intergalactic exchange program. Marvin is sure that Regor would love to experience the adventure of sailing, but decides he should introduce the concept of a “sailboat” first. Marvin suggests that Regor compare the features of an item that he thinks might be a sailboat with a checklist of sailboat
features. If there are sufficient overlapping features, he might determine that it is a sailboat. This could be considered a ____.
a. ?prototype
b. ?theory
c. ?feature detection model
d. ?schema
ANSWER:
c
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