Rhodes and colleagues (2014) conducted a study examining preschoolers’ distinction between natural concepts and artifacts. Results showed
a. they more often classified artifacts together and imposed stricter definitions for animal categories
b. they less often classified artifacts together and imposed more lax definitions for animal categories
c. children were more likely to consider “cat” and “dog” together than “bus” and “train”
d. children were unable to learn nonsense-named creatures
Ans: a
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