Your text describes cross-cultural studies of categorization with U.S. and Itzaj participants. Given the results of these studies, we know that if asked to name basic level objects for a category, U.S. participants would answer and Itzaj participants would answer
a. tree; tree
b. tree; oak
c. oak; tree
d. oak; oak
b
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a. Axis I c. Axis III b. Axis II d. Axis IV
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A) yelling at the parent B) running into the street C) hitting other children D) using inappropriate language