If You Followed the Statement, "Small Schools Can Produce Pro

question 49

Multiple Choice

If you followed the statement, "Small schools can produce pro football players" with the statement, "Steve Kreider, the former Bengals wide receiver, graduated from Lehigh," you would be using a(n) _____________________

• A) illustration
• B) analogy
• C) example
• D) quotation

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Definitions:

Psychological Essentialism

The belief that certain categories, such as biological species or social groups, have an underlying and unobservable essence that defines their identity.

Connectionism

An approach in cognitive science that models mental or behavioral phenomena as the emergent processes of interconnected networks of simple units.

Exemplar View

A perspective in psychology that suggests the classification or recognition of objects occurs by comparing them to a collection of specific examples or instances stored in memory.

Prototype View

A theory in cognitive science suggesting that mental categorization is based on the best or most typical example of a category.