In a study by Posner,Welton,and Goldsmith (1967),participants saw a bunch of dot patterns,and then later had to classify them as previously seen or unseen.When participants saw a dot pattern that resembled all of the other ones but that wasn't presented,they still tended to classify it as previously seen.This finding supports

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The finding supports the prototype approach because it suggests that participants formed a mental representation (prototype) of the dot patterns that included the common features of all the patterns they saw. When they encountered a new pattern that closely resembled this prototype, they mistakenly recognized it as something they had seen before, indicating they were not relying on specific examples (exemplar approach) or strict definitions (classical view), nor does it suggest an underlying essence (essentialist view).

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