Norman was visiting a tribal village in the Las Perlas islands. When it came time for sleep, he asked where his bed was and mimi
cked going to sleep. His host kept pointing to the same room, but Norman kept asking again because he did not see a bed in the room. His host finally went in and laid down on a reed mat on the floor and pretended to sleep. Norman's confusion occurred because when he compared the mat to every _____ in his memory from camp cots to canopy beds, it did not resemble any of them closely enough to be put in his category for beds.
An exemplar is simply defined as a good, notable or experienced example of a category of an item or thing. You can basically call it an example.the exemplar approach is used by humans to form categories by finding examples in our life to form categories and it relies on memory. By basically matching it to an example is how typical you think of it of that thing.
Exemplar theory holds the viee that when humans.see anything or something that they have not seen before, to classify it e.g. a beds, we compare it to all other beds we have seen and also to similar items e.g. mats etc, pretty much anything we have experienced.
