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.