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20 Cards in this Set
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One consistent research finding concerning natural categorization is that
-people tend to emphasize features that provide causal explanations -the relations among features are important -natural categories are hierarchically organized |
all the above
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Warrington and Shallice found that certain patients lost their knowledge of living things as demonstrated by their poor performance in
-identifying pictures -defining spoken words -both a and b -neither a nor b |
both a and b |
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According to Rosch and Mervis, the most typical members of a category
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share attributes with other members of the same category |
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Members of the same basic category |
have many attributes in common. |
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An advantage of defining clinical diagnosis by a large number of overlapping features is that it encourages clinicians to
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consider individual differences when treating patients
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In the study of categorization, a prototype is
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the average example of a member of the category
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Categorizing objects reduces the complexity of the environment. |
True
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Natural categories differ from concept-identification tasks because
-their members are not equally good representatives of the category -they may be defined along continuous dimensions -they are often hierarchically organized-all the above |
all the above
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The finding that people rate some even numbers as better examples than other even numbers indicates that
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members of rule-defined categories can differ in representativeness
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Siamese is to cat as ___ category is to ___ category. |
subordinate; basic
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Concept identification has been thought of by some as being accomplished by evaluating hypotheses.
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True
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Typicality is a measure of how well a category member fits the basic level representation
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False
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Disjunctive is to _____ as conjunctive is to _____.
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or; and
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Farah and McClelland found that their neural network model had difficulty identifying living objects when it lost
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visual features
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Barsalou has shown that goal-derived categories are organized around
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ideals
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The concept identification paradigm has been criticized on the basis that
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all the above
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A good example of a superordinate category might be 'animal'.
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True
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Which dimension would be the most difficult to represent in a prototype model
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marital status
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The prototype model was found to be a better predictor of categorization when the information was ___ while feature frequency model was the better predictor when the information was ___.
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continuous; discrete
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Which of the following does not belong?
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conjunctive rule
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