Question

You decide to create a schema for animals. You break this topic down into "land animals" and "ocean animals". You then include "monkey," "zebra," and "lion" as land animals and "shark," "whale," and "coral" as ocean animals. Which are exemplars for the concept of "ocean animals"? This information is in one of your lectures.

• A. Zebra
• B. Sharks
• C. Land animals
• D. Ocean animals

According to this theory, a concept is formed as a total of all of the different examples of an object or idea we come into contact with. This describes: This information is found in one of your lectures.

• A. Functional fixedness theory
• B. Heuristics
• C. Prototype theory
• D. Exemplar theory

Which of the following is an example of the availability heuristic?

• A. Lauren enjoys makeup, partying, and states her main hobby to be "Instagram." Most people fail to list "doctor," her actual profession, as their first guess when asked.
• B. When asked whether people are more likely to die of sharks or vending machines, people often reply "sharks" despite the fact that vending machine deaths are more common.
• C. You always take the same route to the store. When the route is blocked, you decide to just return home rather than find a different route.
• D. Despite the fact that there are many rocks to hammer in a nail, we give up on the task because there are no hammers.

Every person is intelligent.

True False

Answer 1

1. Sharks- the exemplar  model proposes that people create the "bird" category by maintaining in their memory a collection.

2. Exemplar Theory: Exemplar theory is a proposal concerning the way humans categorize objects and ideas.

3. When asked whether people are more likely to die of sharks or vending machines, people often reply "sharks" despite the fact that vending machine deaths are more common

Availabilty heuristic: It means people make judgments about the likelihood of an event based on how easily an example, instance, or case comes to mind.

4. No . Because Intelligence we can simply define that it is the capacity for logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. When we take the example of individuals there are people who have difficulty with intellectual processing we put them under the cluster of "Mentally disabled". They have the difficulty to gain and process knowledge and skills with their own and their capacity for cognitive, emotional and social skills effectively will be impaired.