Participants Are Asked to Make Up Sentences About the Category

question 16

Multiple Choice

Participants are asked to make up sentences about the category "birds." Which of the following is LEAST likely to be true about this task?

• A) Among other tasks, this task provides evidence for the use of prototypes in categories.
• B) Participants often have a wide range of birds in mind when generating these sentences.
• C) Future participants will judge modified sentences where the name of a nonprototypical bird is substituted for the word "bird" as ridiculous.
• D) The sensibility of a sentence is usually unchanged if the name of a prototypical bird is substituted for the word "bird."

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