Question

Suppose you were asked whether a carrot is a veggie, and you answered "yes" quickly. But then you were asked whether an eggplant is a veggie, and you answered "yes" but slower. This would demonstrate:

a) Semantic priming.
b) Conceptual fluency.
c) A retrieval cue.
d) Prototypicality effect.

Answer 1

The quicker response to confirming a carrot as a vegetable over an eggplant is due to the prototypicality effect, where more typical examples of a concept are accessed faster in our semantic networks.

Step-by-step explanation:

If you answered "yes" more quickly to whether a carrot is a veggie compared to an eggplant, this would demonstrate the prototypicality effect. The prototypicality effect occurs because some examples (like carrots for vegetables) are more prototypical or typical of a concept than others (like eggplant for vegetables). In semantic networks, concepts are connected and organized in a manner where more prototypical examples are usually accessed faster than less typical ones, which is why you might say "yes" quicker when asked if a carrot is a vegetable.

This effect is often influenced by personal experiences and cultural factors, which shape which instances of a concept we encounter more frequently and thus consider more prototypical. Semantic priming occurs when the exposure to one stimulus influences the response to another stimulus, often due to the activation of related concepts within a semantic network, but it is not the correct answer in this particular situation.