Marvin,who Lives in San Francisco,has Been Asked to Host a Teenage

Multiple Choice

Marvin,who lives in San Francisco,has been asked to host a teenage alien,Regor,as part of an intergalactic exchange program.Marvin is sure that Regor would love to experience the adventure of sailing,but decides he should introduce the concept of a "sailboat" first.Marvin suggests that Regor compare the features of an item that he thinks might be a sailboat with a checklist of sailboat features.If there are sufficient overlapping features,he might determine that it is a sailboat.This could be considered a ____.

A) prototype
B) theory
C) feature detection model
D) schema