AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Matching new items to the prototype provides a quick and easy method for including items in a category (as when comparing feathered creatures to a prototypical bird, such as a robin). A sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem; it contrasts with strategy-based solutions.

Detailed explanation-2: -a theory of categorization proposing that people form an average of the members of a category and then use the average as a prototype for making judgments about category membership.

Detailed explanation-3: -prototype a mental image or best example of a category. Matching new items to a prototype provides a quick and easy method for sorting items into categories (as when you compare a feathered creature to a prototypical bird, such as a robin).

Detailed explanation-4: -Representativeness Heuristic-judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match, particular prototypes; may lead one to ignore other relevant information.

Detailed explanation-5: -Prototypes: a mental image of best example of a category. Ex. most people think of a robin, as opposed to a flamingo, when they hear the word “bird”.