You have encountered approximately 10 horses in your lifetime. You encounter a new, tall four legged animal with hair on its neck and a large snout. In order to determine whether it is in fact a “horse,” you compare it to all the horses you have encountered before. It appears to match those horses on most features, and thus you decide it is in fact a “horse.” This best represents which approach to concepts and categorization?
a. prototype theory
b. knowledge-based view
c. exemplar theory
d. classical view
c. exemplar theory
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a. attractive single women who are his age b. attractive married women who are his age c. attractive married women who are younger than him d. attractive single women who are older than him
The inability to produce grammatically correct sentences is known as ________
a) articulatory alexia b) agrammatism c) agrammatoxia d) grammatical agraphia e) word salad
Katrina and Charlie, who both work out at the gym regularly, have enrolled their 4-year-old in a gymnastics class for preschoolers. This is an example of ________ gene-environment correlation.
A. passive B. evocative C. active D. dynamic
At the heart of Skinner’s research is the belief that
A) humans are not essentially different from other animals. B) animals are like ourselves, rather than the reverse. C) humans inherently possess the potential to actualize themselves. D) it is better to generalize to human behavior from pigeons than from rats.