If You Have Just Heard the Word Vegetable, You Can

question 81

Multiple Choice

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.

Calculate and interpret odds ratios in case-control studies.

Understand the different measures of association used in epidemiological studies.

Describe the potential impact of selection bias on study results.

Analyze the role of multiple risk factors on disease incidence.

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