If you have just heard the word vegetable, you can quickly make judgments about the word carrot; in contrast, your judgments about the word mushroom take much longer. According to the prototype approach, this observation shows that

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According to the prototype approach, prototypes are considered more representative of a category than nonprototypes. When primed with a category (like "vegetable"), responses to prototypes of that category (like "carrot") are faster than to nonprototypes (like "mushroom"), demonstrating that after priming, people respond faster to prototypes.

If You Have Just Heard the Word Vegetable, You Can