What is a typicality gradient? What are the effects of typicality gradients on how we process categories?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: If a category has a prototype, the prototype represents what is most likely true for the category (e.g., a robin). Individual members of the category will vary from the prototype (e.g., chicken). The degree to which the category members are similar or vary from the prototype creates a typicality gradient. Behavioral research has shown that we learn faster, categorize faster, and make stronger inferences if an item is closer to the prototype.
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a. ?was too materialistic b. ?gave too much credit to innate morality c. ?gave the mind unnecessary innate powers d. ?over-emphasized the role of the senses
When most scores in each group of an experiment do overlap, then all of the following are true EXCEPT ______.
A. the error variance will be large B. the power to detect mean differences between groups will be low C. individual differences become a likely explanation for an observed difference between groups D. group differences become a likely explanation for an observed difference between groups