Samantha is participating in a psychology experiment in which she sees a sentence on a computer screen and is to decide as quickly as possible whether the sentence is true or false. According to the defining attribute model, Samantha will say "true" to the sentence "A penguin is a bird" ____________ she will say "true" to the sentence "A robin is a bird."
A) more slowly than
B) more quickly than
C) with equal speed as
D) b or c

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According to the defining attribute model, typical examples of a category (like a robin for birds) are recognized more quickly than atypical examples (like a penguin). Therefore, Samantha will say "true" more slowly for "A penguin is a bird" than for "A robin is a bird."

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