The prototype approach suggests that a concept is classified as a member of a category if
a. the super-ordinate critical feature is matched.
b. it matches your overall emotional evaluation of the concept.
c. it is similar to an ideal or most representative example of the category.
d. storing the concept as a member of the category minimizes the time and effort required to process information.
e. the concept exactly matches with the dictionary definition of the category.
c. it is similar to an ideal or most representative example of the category.
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a. Attractiveness does not seem to matter nearly as much as people think it does. b. Attractiveness matters for small things, but does not seem to matter much for things that are relatively important to people. c. Ironically, attractiveness seems to have an impact on things that are relatively important to people, but does not seem to matter much for small things. d. Attractiveness seems to have an impact both on small things and on things that are relatively important to people.
Your initial, subjective evaluation of a situation is called:
a. metacognition c. primary appraisal b. personal evaluation d. hardiness
The American Academy of Pediatrics suggests that boys and girls should engage in sports and games, and __________,
a) boys should play with boys b) girls should play with girls c) boys and girls should engage in sports and games in mixed-gender groups until puberty d) boys and girls should engage in sports and games in mixed-gender groups despite the onset of puberty
According to Delahanty et al. (2000), the effects of acute stress on Natural Killer
(NK) cell activity are a. positive b. negative c. neutral—there is no effect d. positive or negative, depending on certain factors e. Delahanty et al. did not examine NK cells in their study