Briefly describe how exemplar memory can impact categorizing objects using rules

What will be an ideal response?


Answer: When exemplars are activated they influence how information is categorized. For instance, Allen and Brooks (1991) found that positive-match exemplars were correctly categorized 81 percent of the time but that negative-match exemplars were correctly categorized only 56 percent of the time.

Psychology

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Official goals are

A. Specific and a mixture of open-ended and close-ended B. Concrete and close-ended C. Abstract and open-ended

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Hashish is very similar in its effects to ______

a. marijuana c. PCP b. LSD d. cocaine

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Which one of the following statements best describes structured behavioral interviews?

A. Structured behavioral interviews focus on questions that ask candidates to provide specific accounts of the behaviors they have used in the past. B. Structured behavioral interviews are work samples that require the applicant to perform a task during the interview. C. Structured behavioral interviews ask applicants to imagine how they would behave in situations they have never experienced in the past. D. Structured behavioral interviews contain questions about what behaviors the applicant expects to perform on the job and why those behaviors are important or valuable.

Psychology