With Virtually No Hesitation You Can Say That Pigs, Sheep

question 25

Multiple Choice

With virtually no hesitation you can say that pigs, sheep, and cows are all examples of the concept of mammal, but you may hesitate a few seconds before deciding whether bats and porpoises are also mammals. This suggests that pigs, sheep, and cows are _____ of the concept mammal.

• A)stereotypes
• B)prototypes
• C)algorithms
• D)heuristics

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Definitions:

Chi-Square Test

A statistical test used to determine if there is a significant difference between observed frequencies and expected frequencies in one or more categories.

Expected Frequency

The number of times an event is predicted to occur in a statistical experiment based on the probabilities of outcomes.

Expected Cell Frequency

The predicted number of observations that fall into a specific category or cell within a contingency table.

Sample Size

The number of observations or data points collected in a statistical sample.