Imagine that a young child is just learning about the category "dog." Thus far, she has experienced only two dogs, one a small poodle and the other a large German shepherd. On her third encounter with a dog, she will be LEAST likely to correctly categorize the animal as a dog if that animal
a. matches the size of the poodle but is of a different breed.
b. is a dog that does not bark.
c. matches an exemplar of one of the dogs she has experienced.
d. is similar to an "average" for the dogs she has encountered.
b
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a. cognitive development c. social development b. nature versus nurture d. accommodation
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a. clock rate b. walk rate c. run rate d. performance rate
Increasing the sample size ______ the sampling error, which will ______ the Type II error.
A. decreases; decreases B. decreases; increases C. increases; decreases D. increases; increases
Brittany played a middle C note on the piano, which corresponds to about 261 Hz. It is likely that this tone will
A. be processed according to place theory. B. be processed according to temporal theory. C. produce a peak response at the base of the basilar membrane. D. produce nausea, because it is infrasound.