Mandi shares her frozen dessert with her sister. "Wow!" says her sister, "What type of ice-cream is this?"
Mandi explains that, because it does not contain any dairy, the dessert is a sorbet and not an ice-cream. Mandi's use of the technical definition for ice-cream to classify the dessert is an example of:
A) using a prototype.
B) rule-based categorization.
C) using a heuristic.
D) linguistic relativity.
Answer: B
Rationale: In rule-based categorization, objects or events are categorized according to a certain set of rules or by a specific set of features. In contrast, categorization using a prototype is done by comparison, not explicit rules or definitions.
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