In Efforts to Judge If a Community Is Well Governed

question 17

Multiple Choice

In efforts to judge if a community is well governed, there is

• A)a universally accepted criterion developed by National Municipal League that recognizes voter participation and civic engagement as key measures.
• B)no universally accepted set of criteria.
• C)a universally accepted set of standards that contains seven elements and is known as the Bowman and Kearney Measure of City Governance.
• D)a set of universally accepted criteria known as the All-American City standard.

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Definitions:

Schemata

Cognitive structures that represent organized knowledge about a given concept or type of stimulus, based on past experience.

Brooks

Refers to the work of psychologist Allan Brooks, known for contributions in cognitive psychology, especially in visual and spatial memory.

Exemplars

Specific instances or examples within a category that are used in cognitive psychology to theorize how people categorize items and ideas.

Prototype View

The prototype view is a theory in cognitive science suggesting that people categorize objects and ideas based on a mental image or "prototype" that represents the most typical example of a category.