Joshua Is Three Years Old

Multiple Choice

Joshua is three years old. His mother told him there was a bird perched outside on the bird feeder. Joshua pictured a robin in his mind when he went to the window but that is not the bird he saw on the feeder. He told his mother, "That's not a bird!" His ideal representation of a "bird" looking like a robin is

A) a stereotype.
B) a perception.
C) an attribution.
D) a prototype.