Psych 1000 Unit 5 Questions and All
Correct Answers 2025-2026 Updated.
concept - Answer the mental representation of an object, event, or idea
categories - Answer clusters of interrelated concepts
rule-based categorization - Answer categorizing objects or events according to a certain set
of rules or by a specific set of features
graded membership - Answer the observation that some concepts appear to make better
category members than others
exemplar - Answer a specific example that best represents a category
prototype - Answer a mental representation of an average category member
semantic network - Answer an interconnected set of nodes (or concepts) and the links that
join them to form a category
True or False - superordinate categories like animal are generally used when someone is
uncertain about an object - Answer true
priming - Answer the activation of individual concepts in long-term memory
category specific visual agnosia (CSVA) - Answer inability to identify certain categories
True or False - categories are group together in the brain - Answer true (I think, look at page
337)
Which categories were group together for our survival - Answer animals, fruits and
vegetables, members of our own species, possibly tools
folk biology - Answer studied relationships between culture and categorization
True or False - people raised in North America tend to view objects in relation to their
environment while Japanese people tend to focus on a single characteristic - Answer false
, linguistic relativity (Whorfian hypothesis) - Answer the theory that the language we use
determines how we understand (and categorize) the world
True or False - brain regions involved in object recognition and processing differed in people
from western and eastern cultures - Answer true
A _______ is a mental representation of an average member of a category.
a. subordinate-level category
b. prototype
c. network
d. similarity principle - Answer b
Rule-based categorization approaches sometimes cannot account for ________, a property of
categorization that makes some items better category members than others.
a. basic-level categorization
b. prototyping
c. graded membership
d. priming - Answer c
The idea that our language influences how we understand the world is referred to as ________.
a. the Whorfian hypothesis
b. the context specificity hypothesis
c. sentence verification
d. priming - Answer a
Janice, a medical school student, looked at her grandmother's hospital chart. Although her
grandmother appeared to have problems with her intestines, Janice thought the pattern of the
lab results resembled those of a patient with lupus whom Janice had seen in the clinic earlier
that week. Janice is showing an example of
a. how we are able to quickly categorize examples from specific categories.
b. how memory for a previous example can influence categorization decisions.
c. how people rely on prototypes to categorize objects and events.
d. how we rely on a set of rules to categorize objects. - Answer b
Research on linguistic relativity suggests that
a. language has complete control over how people categorize the world.
Correct Answers 2025-2026 Updated.
concept - Answer the mental representation of an object, event, or idea
categories - Answer clusters of interrelated concepts
rule-based categorization - Answer categorizing objects or events according to a certain set
of rules or by a specific set of features
graded membership - Answer the observation that some concepts appear to make better
category members than others
exemplar - Answer a specific example that best represents a category
prototype - Answer a mental representation of an average category member
semantic network - Answer an interconnected set of nodes (or concepts) and the links that
join them to form a category
True or False - superordinate categories like animal are generally used when someone is
uncertain about an object - Answer true
priming - Answer the activation of individual concepts in long-term memory
category specific visual agnosia (CSVA) - Answer inability to identify certain categories
True or False - categories are group together in the brain - Answer true (I think, look at page
337)
Which categories were group together for our survival - Answer animals, fruits and
vegetables, members of our own species, possibly tools
folk biology - Answer studied relationships between culture and categorization
True or False - people raised in North America tend to view objects in relation to their
environment while Japanese people tend to focus on a single characteristic - Answer false
, linguistic relativity (Whorfian hypothesis) - Answer the theory that the language we use
determines how we understand (and categorize) the world
True or False - brain regions involved in object recognition and processing differed in people
from western and eastern cultures - Answer true
A _______ is a mental representation of an average member of a category.
a. subordinate-level category
b. prototype
c. network
d. similarity principle - Answer b
Rule-based categorization approaches sometimes cannot account for ________, a property of
categorization that makes some items better category members than others.
a. basic-level categorization
b. prototyping
c. graded membership
d. priming - Answer c
The idea that our language influences how we understand the world is referred to as ________.
a. the Whorfian hypothesis
b. the context specificity hypothesis
c. sentence verification
d. priming - Answer a
Janice, a medical school student, looked at her grandmother's hospital chart. Although her
grandmother appeared to have problems with her intestines, Janice thought the pattern of the
lab results resembled those of a patient with lupus whom Janice had seen in the clinic earlier
that week. Janice is showing an example of
a. how we are able to quickly categorize examples from specific categories.
b. how memory for a previous example can influence categorization decisions.
c. how people rely on prototypes to categorize objects and events.
d. how we rely on a set of rules to categorize objects. - Answer b
Research on linguistic relativity suggests that
a. language has complete control over how people categorize the world.
