One piece of research evidence that supports the view that categories are formed using exemplars is the finding that:

a. people seem to know things about which features within a category go together
b. people can make faster classifications when new objects have most of a category's core features
c. most people select the same category members when asked to provide examples from different categories
d. people seldom use superordinate categories in everyday explanations


A

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