We More Quickly Recognize That a Blue Jay Is a Bird

question 345

Multiple Choice

We more quickly recognize that a blue jay is a bird than that a penguin is a bird because a blue jay more closely resembles our ________ of a bird.

• A) heuristic
• B) prototype
• C) algorithm
• D) phoneme

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Definitions:

Emotional Responses

The feelings elicited by stimuli or situations, which can range from happiness, sadness, anger, to fear, and are influenced by personal experiences and cognitive appraisals.

Canonical Babbling

A type of babbling with well-formed syllables that sounds like language.

Purpose Of Speech

The intended outcome or goal behind delivering a speech, such as to inform, persuade, entertain, or motivate the audience.

Overextension

A vocabulary error in which the infant applies a word too broadly to a wider class of objects than appropriate.