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Not all of the members of everyday categories have the same features.Most fish have gills, fins, and scales.Sharks lack the feature of scales, yet they are still categorized as fish.This poses a problem for the _______ approach to categorization.

A) prototype
B) exemplar
C) definitional
D) family resemblance

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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Explain cognitive economy as it applies to the semantic network approach.How are properties or characteristics represented within the semantic network? How is category relation represented within the semantic network? Explain how atypical category members are represented.

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Which of the following members would most likely be ranked highest in prototypicality in the "birds" category?

Rosch found that participants respond more rapidly in a same-different task when presented with "good" examples of colors such as "red" and "green" than when they are presented with "poor" examples such as "pink" or "light green." The result of this experiment was interpreted as supporting the _____ approach to categorization.

Which of the following would be in a basic level category?

How is cognitive economy represented in the following example? The property _____ is stored at the _____ node.

Collins and Quillian's semantic network model predicts that the reaction time to verify "a canary is a bird" is _____ the reaction time to verify "an ostrich is a bird."

Research suggests that the _____ approach to categorization works best for small categories (e.g., U.S.presidents) .

According to Collins and Quillian's semantic network model, it should take longest to verify which statement below?

Collins and Loftus modified the original semantic network theory of Collins and Quillian to satisfy some of the criticisms of the original model.People consider this to be a strong theory because it is powerful enough to explain just about any result.

Connectionist networks are modeled after neural networks in the nervous system and incorporate all of the following features of the nervous system EXCEPT

In the semantic network model, a specific category is represented at a

Items high on prototypicality have ____ family resemblances.

The activity that represents a particular object is established in a connectionist network through a process of learning that involves

An advantage of the prototype approach over the exemplar approach is that the prototype approach provides a better explanation of the typicality effect.

According to the text, jumping from _______ categories results in the largest gain in information.

According to Rosch, the ____ level of categories is the psychologically "privileged" level of category that reflects people's everyday experience.

Which approach to categorization involves forming a representation based on an average of category members that a person has encountered in the past?

If you say that "a Labrador retriever is my idea of a typical dog," you would be using the _____ approach to categorization.

The prototype approach to categorization states that a standard representation of a category is based on