If you have just heard the word vegetable, you can quickly make judgments about the word carrot; in contrast, your judgments about the word mushroom take much longer. According to the prototype approach, this observation shows that
a. family resemblance is stronger for prototypes than for nonprototypes.
b. prototypes are items that have the smallest number of connection weights.
c. after priming, people respond faster to prototypes than to nonprototypes.
d. basic-level categories are judged more quickly than superordinate-level categories.
Ans: c
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Which of the following statements is true?
a. The autonomic nervous system collects sensory input and sends commands to skeletal muscles. b. The autonomic nervous system consists of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. c. The sympathetic nervous system enables the body to conserve and store energy. d. The parasympathetic nervous system mobilizes the body for action.
A form of learning in which a voluntary response is strengthened or weakened, depending on its association with positive or negative consequences, is known as
a. classical conditioning. c. behavior modification. b. operant conditioning. d. instrumental conditioning.