Intensional orientation refers to the tendency to

A) view people how they are labeled rather than how they actually exist.
B) respond to things as they are rather than as they are labeled or talked about.
C) see the middle ground as well as the extremes.
D) group unlike things together and to assume that because they have the same label, they are all alike.


A

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