The principle illustrated when most people are able to recognize a variety of examples of chairs even though no one category member may have all of the characteristic properties of "chairs" (e.g., most chairs have four legs but not all do) is

a. family resemblance.
b. prototypicality.
c. graded membership.
d. instance theory.

a

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a. graceful degradation. b. spontaneous inhibition of default assignments. c. spontaneous generalization to new nodes in the network. d. the strengthening of connections among relevant nodes.

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A weakness of ________ is that participants in the research often report inaccurate information, sometimes without even intending to

a) naturalistic observation b) surveys c) field experiments d) laboratory experiments

Psychology