Rips, Shoben, and Smith gathered empirical evidence that
A) showed retrieval time is not a useful means of measuring concept formation.
B) all people organize their conceptual scheme of the world hierarchically.
C) supported the Collins and Quillian model of concept organization.
D) people's system for classifying concepts is not as simple as the Collins and Quillian model suggests.
E) none of the above.

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Rips, Shoben, and Smith's research provided evidence that the way people organize and classify concepts is more complex than the hierarchical structure proposed by the Collins and Quillian model, suggesting nuances and exceptions to the strict hierarchical organization.

Rips, Shoben, and Smith Gathered Empirical Evidence That