A Young Child Often Can Recognize Many Common Birds (E

Multiple Choice

A young child often can recognize many common birds (e.g., robins, cardinals, blue jays, gold finches, etc.) as birds, but is stumped when presented with a picture of an exotic-looking peacock. This inability to extend the learned generalization to a novel species illustrates the _______ theory of concept learning.

A) transfer
B) feature
C) prototype
D) exemplar