For each lab, you will perform the experiment and complete a FULL 1-page (single-spaced) write-up of your results, including answering ALL specific questions posted – make sure you are incorporating information from the Chapter. The idea is to use your critical thinking skills and really reflect on the information you learned and apply it. You may respond to each individual question (rather than writing an essay), but answers must be thorough (the prompts & indents do not count towards the 1-page limit), written in complete sentences, and free of grammatical errors and/or typos.
Chapter 9
Describe your prototype for a dog.
Describe how your experience or knowledge of a dog can affect your categorization?
Looking at your experimental results, did you show the prototype effect in this demonstration?
How do you know?
If they do not show the effect, what do you think contributed to the differences?
What is the typicality effect?
How does the prototype model account for typicality effects?
Discuss the other approaches from this Chapter.
How are they similar or dissimilar from the prototype approach?