Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research and Everyday Experience (MindTap Course List)
Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research and Everyday Experience (MindTap Course List)
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ISBN: 9781285763880
Author: E. Bruce Goldstein
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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The prototype approach to categorization tends to allocate things and people into categories based on the fact that they most closely represent the category, that is, a prototype is a typical representative of a particular category.

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