The principle illustrated when most people are able to recognize a variety of examples of chairs even though no one category member may have all of the characteristic properties of "chairs" (e.g., most chairs have four legs but not all do) is
A. family resemblance.
B. prototypicality.
C. graded membership.
D. instance theory.
Answer: A
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Which of the following observations, if true, would be most consistent with that statement? a. Depressed people tend to have a monotone voice during speaking; nondepressed people have more variation in intonation. b. Depressed people have more difficulty overcoming the linearization problem, compared to nondepressed people. c. Depressed people have more difficulty producing a sentence with noun-verb agreement, compared to nondepressed people. d. Depressed people produce shorter, less complex sentences, compared to nondepressed people.
Those who report having had out-of-body experiences often
suggest that they can see or hear things that are separated from their bodies. On the rare occasion when these claims have been positively verified by research, repetitions of that research have failed to produce the same outcomes. This is a problem for which principle of critical thinking mentioned in your textbook? A) Falsifiability B) Replicability C) Correlation vs. causation D) Occam's Razor
The process by which males and females develop distinct reproductive anatomy is known as
A) sexual differentiation. B) gender roles. C) gender typing. D) mitosis.
_____ is a synthetic hormone used to maintain pregnancy.
A. Testosterone B. Estrogen C. Progestin D. Oxytocin