Rips (1975)reported an experiment in which subjects read a story about an island inhabited by only eight species of animals: sparrows,robins,eagles,hawks,ducks,geese,ostriches,and bats.The evidence indicated __________.
A)support for prepositional theories of representation
B)support for PDP models
C)support for the dual-coding hypothesis
D)evidence for prototype effects

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Rips (1975) experiment showed that people categorized animals based on typicality, which supports the idea of prototype effects, where individuals have a mental representation of the most typical member of a category.

Rips (1975)reported an Experiment in Which Subjects Read a Story