Question

The principle that is illustrated when most people are able to recognize a variety of examples of chairs even though no one category member may have all of the characteristic properties of "chairs" (e.g., most chairs have four legs but not all do) is:_______.
a) family resemblance.
b) prototypicality.
c) graded membership.
d) instance theory.

Answer 1

Answer:

Prototypicality

Explanation:

The prototype concept is closely related to the phenomena of schema in psychology.

The word prototype is used to describe the originality that describes the form of standard The prototype is influenced by many factors such as language, social, and cultural background.

The different people have different aspects of the perception and the interpretation of the same words.

Thus here the principle called prototype is described for the chair.