Similarity-Based Approaches to Categorization Are to Essentialist Approaches to Categorization

question 27

Multiple Choice

Similarity-based approaches to categorization are to essentialist approaches to categorization as

• A)parallel processing is to serial processing.
• B)the prototype approach is to the classical approach.
• C)the exemplar approach is to the prototype approach.
• D)bottom-up processing is to top-down processing.

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Definitions:

Health Outcomes

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Variables Of Interest

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Ecologic Fallacy

The error in reasoning that occurs when conclusions about individual-level processes are drawn from group-level data.

Median Household Income

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