Participants Are Asked Which Birds They Think Are "Particularly Birdy

question 48

Multiple Choice

Participants are asked which birds they think are "particularly birdy" and which birds are "not very birdy." We should expect that the birds judged as "birdiest" are birds

• A)rarely mentioned in a production task.
• B)appearing infrequently in the participants' environment.
• C)identified quickly in a picture-identification task.
• D)not likely to be identified as typical.

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