If I say the word "dog" and you immediately begin thinking of various breeds of dogs – cocker spaniel, golden retriever, bulldog, German shepherd – but you fail to think of things like "hot dog," "Snoop Doggy Dog," or "my ex boyfriend,"
then your cognition has been affected by the __________ theory that says we make category judgments by comparing new things with examples that are familiar to us.
a. concept
b. prototype
c. family resemblance
d. exemplar
Answer: D
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If the X and Y scores of a bivariate distribution are not related, then the CPXY on these
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