In One Procedure, Participants Were Asked to Judge Which Was

Multiple Choice

In one procedure, participants were asked to judge which was a "better" even number, 4 or 18. The participants

A) were unable to perform this absurd task.
B) offered judgments that show that well-defined categories do not show the graded-membership pattern.
C) regarded all of the even numbers as being "equivalently even."
D) made the judgment in a fashion that implied a graded-membership pattern for the category "even number."