One Study Found That If Participants Were Told a New

question 41

Multiple Choice

One study found that if participants were told a new fact about robins,they would also believe that the new fact was true of ducks.However,if told a new fact about ducks,participants would not extrapolate this information to robins.This suggests that

• A)participants treat each category member independently (on a case-by-case basis)when applying new beliefs.
• B)participants are willing to apply inferences from a typical case within a category to the whole category but will not apply inferences from an atypical case to the whole category.
• C)new knowledge about a member of a category is unstable,leading to a change in a person's belief system only on rare occasions.
• D)beliefs within a theory are less likely to affect typical category members than atypical ones.

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Definitions:

Stages of Modeling

A process in which individuals learn to imitate or mimic behaviors observed in others, often broken down into stages including attention, retention, reproduction, and motivation.

Attention

The act or faculty of concentrating on a particular stimulus or task, excluding other perceivable information.

Reproduction

The biological process by which new individual organisms are produced from their "parents".

Content Relevance

The extent to which information or material is applicable and meaningful to the topic or context of interest.