Don tells Ray he wants to get a new sports car. Ray immediately understands why, because he is familiar with the common characteristics of sports cars and knows what makes them different from family cars. Ray is using mental categories called:
a) classes.
b) concepts.
c) attributes.
d) classifications.
ANS: B, Ray is using mental categories called concepts, which are ideas that represent a category of objects or events.
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