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PSY246 - Cognitive Psychology Quiz on Week 8 - Concepts & Categories, created by Daniel Whiting on 08/05/2017.

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Week 8 - Concepts & Categories

Question 1 of 6

1

Natural categories are defined as those that exist out there in nature.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 2 of 6

1

Natural categories have a correlational structure, which is described as?

Select one of the following:

  • That certain features are likely to coincide with certain other features.

  • That we can not infer causal categories.

  • Certain features generally correlate with any other ambiguous features.

  • Features measured in a cross sectional study.

Explanation

Question 3 of 6

1

Which of the following are characteristics of natural categories?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Fuzzy sets

  • Family resemblance

  • Family typicality

  • Typicality

  • Internal Structure

  • Arbitrarily connected features

Explanation

Question 4 of 6

1

A prototype in a category is...

Select one of the following:

  • Something that is borderline in that category or not. A bookend in furniture for example.

  • Something in a category that is moderately typical of that category.

  • The member of a category with the best family resemblance scores.

  • A member in a category which has the worst family resemblance.

  • The first version of a new invention.

Explanation

Question 5 of 6

1

What are the three category levels?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Super-ordinate

  • Basic level

  • Subordinate

  • Supra-ordinate

  • Conscious

  • Unconscious

  • Hyper-ordinate

  • Hypo-ordinate

Explanation

Question 6 of 6

1

Which theory of categorization is able to account for categorizing within context?

Select one of the following:

  • Theory based view

  • Exemplar view

  • Prototype view

  • Natural category view

Explanation