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Chapter 8 Discussed in Some Detail the Research by Heit

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Chapter 8 discussed in some detail the research by Heit and Barsalou about students' understanding of the concept "animal." If this research could be generalized to the concept "fruit," you would expect to find that


A) experts considered prototypical fruits to be oranges and apples, whereas novices considered those fruits to be nonprototypical.
B) the less common fruits would be more likely to show spontaneous generalization.
C) the concept "fruit" includes some uncommon fruits as well as some prototypes.
D) spreading activation is the most useful mechanism for understanding the meaning of "fruit."

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