Ariel Is Nine Months Old

question 118

Multiple Choice

Ariel is nine months old. She understands that a bird is an animal and that an airplane is a vehicle even though both the objects have wings. According to Jean Mandler, which of the following statements is most likely true of Ariel's categorization of the objects?

• A) Ariel has conceptually categorized the objects.
• B) Ariel has categorized the objects by making perceptual discriminations between different categories of objects.
• C) Ariel has perceptually categorized the objects.
• D) Ariel has categorized the objects on the basis of prototypes that she extracted from the structural regularities of the objects.

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