Don tells Ray he wants to get a new sports car. Ray immediately understands why, because he is familiar with the common characteristics of sports cars and knows what makes them different from family cars. Ray is using mental categories called

a. classes.
b. concepts.
c. attributes.
d. classifications.
e. exemplars.

b. concepts.

Psychology

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The tendency to focus on the details of a task is called a(n) ________ style

Fill in the blanks with correct word

Psychology

Neurocognitive models of the representation of knowledge may deal with:

A) neural networks B) amnesic patients C) connections between units D) all of the above E) none of the above

Psychology