Ariel Is Nine Months Old

Multiple Choice

Ariel is nine months old. She understands that a bird is an animal and that an airplane is a vehicle even though both the objects have wings. According to Jean Mandler, which of the following statements is most likely true of Ariel's categorization of the objects?

A) Ariel has conceptually categorized the objects.
B) Ariel has categorized the objects by making perceptual discriminations between different categories of objects.
C) Ariel has perceptually categorized the objects.
D) Ariel has categorized the objects on the basis of prototypes that she extracted from the structural regularities of the objects.